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2025-01-27
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government; Pippa Hackett (Senator), Seanad
Intent: The removal of phosphorus from human and animal urine and its recycling as a safe to use fertiliser without toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. By so doing to prevent phosphorus and pharmaceuticals from entering groundwater, surface water and rivers ::To ensure that the world will have enough phosphorus fertiliser over the coming decades, in case global supplies ever become un-affordably expensive or in short supply. ::To most easily and at a lower cost, remove pharmaceuticals from human and cattle urine that is currently entering rivers and streams
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | Requesting amendment to remit of Uisce Éireann to accept separated urine as the best way to recycle metal free Phosphorus and Nitrogen and to most economically remove pharmaceuticals from waste water discharges into surface waters |
2024-09-11
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Intent: The removal of phosphorus from human and animal urine and its recycling as a safe to use fertiliser without toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. By so doing to prevent phosphorus and pharmaceuticals from entering groundwater, surface water and rivers ::To ensure that the world will have enough phosphorus fertiliser over the coming decades, in case global supplies ever become un-affordably expensive or in short supply. ::To most easily and at a lower cost, remove pharmaceuticals from human and cattle urine that is currently entering rivers and streams
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | Requesting amendment to remit of Uisce Éireann to accept separated urine as the best way to recycle metal free Phosphorus and Nitrogen and to most economically remove pharmaceuticals from waste water discharges into surface waters |
2024-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Intent: The removal of phosphorus from human and animal urine and its recycling as a safe to use fertiliser without metals or pharmaceuticals. By so doing to prevent phosphorus and pharmaceuticals from entering groundwater and rivers ::To ensure that the world will have enough phosphorus over the coming decades, in case global supplies ever become un-affordably expensive. ::To also more easily remove pharmaceuticals in the urine from rivers and streams more easily than from municipal wastewater.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | Requesting amendment to remit of Irish Water to accept separated urine to recycle Phosphorus and nitrogen and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2023-09-14
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Pippa Hackett (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Steven Matthews (TD), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Martin (Minister), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Rural and Community Development; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Pippa Hackett (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Patrick Costello (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Garvey (Senator), Seanad; Pauline O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To demonstrate and develop the recycling of phosphorus as Struvite from urine in Ireland. Confirm by testing that the struvite produced from separated urine is the most toxin-free and metal-free form of recycled phosphorus fertiliser for food crops. Seek certification with the European Union to obtain the CE mark for this type of struvite because of the practically undetectable levels of toxic metals or residual pharmaceuticals in the fertiliser. ::To begin to take steps to create an indigenous pure phosphorus recycling industry and market in Ireland, based on separated urine. ::To efficiently prevent phosphorus discharges from septic tanks ::To create the supply and market in Ireland for magnesium rich brine from seawater, and for the use of magnesium oxide or Epsom salt, as an ingredient for the production of recycled phosphorus as struvite from separated urine.
Methods: Email
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Method | Description |
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— | Proposal for urine separating toilets in 200 new houses. Proposal that Uisce Éireann collects the urine. Proposal that phosphorus as struvite from separated urine be recovered and recycled to food crops |
2023-04-28
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Malcolm Noonan (TD), Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; Hannah Hamilton (Adviser to Minister), Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; Pippa Hackett (Senator), Department of Agriculture and the Marine
Intent: To remove phosphorus, nitrogen and pharmaceuticals from domestic wastewater
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | Requesting amendment to remit of Irish Water to accept separated urine to recycle Phosphorus and nitrogen and to remove pharmaceuticals |
2023-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Eamon Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pippa Hackett (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Oissian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Intent: To significantly reduce the wasting of phosphorus from septic tanks that frequently ends up polluting local wells and streams. To reduce excessive phosphorus in cattle slurry from entering ground water and surface water bodies. To reduce Ireland's dependence on imported synthetic phosphorus fertilisers and replace this with lower cost recycled phosphorus fertilisers for gardens & farms. To promote recycled phosphorus in order to avoid a future global fertiliser and food supply crisis.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | To encourage & promote human as well as cattle urine to be separated to treat and recycle the Phosphorus as a sustainable fertiliser. |
2022-09-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Ossian Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To significantly reduce the wasting of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from septic tanks that frequently ends up polluting local wells and streams. To minimise the excreted pharmaceuticals that are ending up in nearby wells and surface water bodies. To reduce the nutrient loading on overloaded municipal sewage treatment systems. To reduce Ireland's dependence on imported synthetic nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers and replace this with lower cost recycled fertilisers for gardens & farmers.::To recycle nutrients from human toilet waste and to begin to lower the cost for nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers, to promote a program of recycling nutrients from waste water at source, so that we begin to take small steps to avoid unaffordable fertiliser and food prices. To prepare for making ammonium sulphate from the ammonia that emits from stale urine using sulphuric acid. To begin to move away from our dependency on natural gas from Russia, to make synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
Methods: Email
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Method | Description |
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— | Requesting changes to Irish Building Regulations to allow for composting toilets. To allow/ permit urine separating toilets and the treatment of urine to grow flowers or make Struvite and also to recover nitrogen as Ammonium Sulphate. To permit and approve the use of these recycled nutrients to be used in gardens & farms as a safe compost or fertiliser that does not contain toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. To ask for rainwater harvesting systems to be mandatory for all new buildings in Dublin |
2022-05-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Oissian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Steven Matthews (TD), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: By so doing to significantly reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from septic tanks that often up polluting local wells and streams. To minimise the excreted pharmaceuticals that are ending up in nearby wells and surface water bodies. To reduce the nutrient loading on overloaded municipal sewage treatment systems. To reduce Ireland's dependence on imported synthetic nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers and replace this with lower cost recycled fertilisers for farmers. .::By recycling and by lowering the cost for nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers, to promote a program of recycling organic waste, so that we avoid unaffordable fertiliser and food prices.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | To ask for changes to the Irish Building Regulations to allow for composting toilets. To allow for urine separating toilets and the treatment of urine to recover phosphorus as Struvite and also to recover nitrogen as Ammonium Sulphate. To permit and approve the use of these recycled nutrients to be used in Irish Agriculture as a safe to use fertiliser that does not contain toxic metals or pharmaceuticals. To ask for rainwater harvesting systems to be mandatory for all new buildings in Dublin |
2022-01-10
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: To reduce the demand for mains water in the Dublin region. To avoid the wasting of nitrogen and phosphorus into the ground from septic tanks. To prevent hormones and pharmaceutical pollution from domestic wastewater and septic tanks that enter nearby wells and surface waters. To permit homeowners to recover nutrients by growing non food plants from urine for later composting, and allow communities to recycle phosphorus as struvite without toxic metals or pharmaceuticals to agriculture.
Methods: Submission
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | Imposing an obligation for all new buildings in the 4 Dublin Areas to harvest rainwater for toilet flushing as a minimum. Giving freedom and choice to house builders and home owners to install composting toilets and to separate urine . To treat and manage these waste streams separately in a safe and hygienic manner. |
2021-09-09
Politician(s) lobbied: Pippa Hackett (Super Junior Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: To change the focus of waste water treatment to more effectively recycle nitrogen and phosphorus from municipal waste water without any toxic metals, organic pollutants or residual pharmaceuticals.::To ensure that Ireland becomes more independent in its use of fertilisers that are free of toxic metals and organic pollutants.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
Method | Description |
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— | The need to protect and enrich the organic matter in Irish soils. The absence of earth worms in soil because of mismanagement of current farming practices. The impact on farming due to increasing prices for imported phosphorus based fertilisers over the coming 4 to 6 decades. The need for Ireland to recycle phosphorus in order to avoid economic difficulties on farms that rely on the use of mineral and synthetic fertilisers. |