Membership Benefits

The Platform operates as a not-for-profit organisation that is membership fee funded. Membership is open to all allied organisations that support our vision.

Membership Benefits include:

  • Support for the creation and development of new business opportunities, value chains and income streams;
  • A ‘safe-space’ for stakeholders to interact with regulators to discuss policy, challenges, solutions and technological innovations;
  • Access to an established network of national and international technology providers, cognate sustainability initiatives, governmental bodies, and EU agencies;
  • Networking and knowledge exchange with diverse stakeholders from across the waste value chain both nationally and internationally;
  • Corporate visibility and advocacy in the waste recycling and valorization sectors;
  • Recognition as a leader in sustainability through logo placement and promotion via Platform media outlets and events;
  • Brand association with respect to environmental stewardship and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and
  • Access to funding opportunities and infrastructure to build collaborative research programmes with academic and technical centres of excellence.

How Will These Be Realised?

  • International technology showcases to disseminate current best practise
  • Networking events and workshops
  • Research and development
  • Knowledge exchange
  • Technology transfer
  • Advocacy

Current Members

Towards a bio-based all-island economy: urban biowaste conversion to carboxylates, nutrient products and renewable energy

In 2022, the EPA granted research funding to the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast to look at current urban biowaste processing systems across the island of Ireland to identify areas where valorisation of urban biowaste could result in the development of new value chains and enable a more sustainable system North and South.

The core areas of research within this project are:

  • to develop a stakeholder-led transformative change model for urban biowaste sustainability on the island of Ireland,
  • to demonstrate the recovery of carboxylate platform chemicals, nutrients and biogas from urban biowaste and their valorisation to high value-added products as an appropriate technological cascade to enable system-wide change towards Irish urban biowaste sustainability
  • to develop an enhanced support capacity, through the Irish Nutrient Sustainability Platform to develop and implement urban biowaste conversion project across Irish cities and towns, North and South.

 

If you have any queries on the project, or would like to get involved, please contact nutrientsustainability@qub.ac.uk