Social Evening

Natural World Products

Contact: Caolan Woods

55 Cargaclougher Road, Keady, BT60 3RA, Co. Armagh,

Tel: 00 44 (0)28 37 531591

Email:

caolan.woods@nwp-recycle.com

Web:www.nwp-recycle.com

Based in Portadown Co. Armagh, Natural World Products (NWP) is one of Northern Ireland’s leading compost producers. Founded in 1989 with the vision of providing high quality compost to customers, NWP’s Rosey Lee Organic Compost is the only compost product in Ireland to be BSI PAS 100 certified from the UK Composting Association. Operating from four facilities across Northern Ireland NWP use the latest GICOM in-vessel composting technology to recycle over 80,000 tonnes of bio-waste collected from over fourteen local Councils. Rosey Lee Compost is currently stocked in over forty garden centres across Ireland. NWP have also been recognised for achieving excellence amongst UK compost producers by recently being awarded the prestigious Jim Ballance Compost Marketing Award by the UK Composting Association.

Brown Bin Workshop

RPS

Contact: Lorraine Herity

Carnegie House, Library Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

Tel: ++ 353 (0) 1 2020870

Email:

Lorraine.Herity@rpsgroup.ie

www.rpsgroup.com/ireland

RPS Group Ltd. is Ireland's largest all-island multi-disciplinary consultancy and are the leading waste and environmental management consultants in Ireland. RPS act as advisors to the DoEHLG, Local Authorities, EPA , Semi State Bodies  and private sector clients. RPS has undertaken  strategic waste planning, site selection, design, planning, EIS and permit applications for several major waste and environmental projects on the Island, which include a number of recycling, composting, waste to energy and landfill projects.In Ireland RPS employs over 1,000 professional and technical support personnel based at a dozen offices at various locations in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Letterkenny and Waterford .RPS Group Ltd., comprises RPS Consulting Engineers, RPS Group (Environment), RPA Planning & Environment Engineering Services.

Delegate Pack

LK Shields Solicitors

Contact: Ian Thomas

39/40 Upper Mount Street,
Dublin 2.

Tel:+353 1 661 0866

Fax: +353 1 6610883 

Email: ithomas@lkshields.ie

www.lkshields.ie

LK Shields Solicitors was founded in 1988.  Within a short time the firm was and remains ranked among the leading law firms in Ireland.  It continues to act in complex and high profile legal transactions and proceedings. The firm is structured around three integrated departments, Business, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, and Commercial Property, with a number of specialist units including Intellectual Property, Banking and Financial Services and Employment. With over 140 employees, its long established and dynamic business environment enables delivery of solution focused legal advice across multiple practice areas. The firm maintains close contacts with leading law firms in the European Union, the US and other jurisdictions.

Study Tour

Bord na Mona

Contact: David Keating

Main Street, Newbridge,

Co. Kildare

Tel:++ 353 (0)45 439630

Email: david.keating@bnm.ie

Web:www.bnm.ie

Bord na Mona’s composting facility is situated in County Kildare between Athy and Monasterevin. It is easily accessed via the N7 motorway. The facility is licensed to accept 100,000 tons per annum. A range of materials are composted on the 4.2 ha site, including by-products from the landscaping, wood processing and food & beverage sectors.

After composting, the material is incorporated into a range of gardening products which are mixed and packaged on the adjoining facility. These are then sold to the garden and horticulture sector in Ireland and the UK.

Lunch

The Composting Assocaition

Contact: Jane Gilbert

3 Burystead Place, Wellingborough
Northamptonshire, NN8 1AH, UK 

Tel: ++ 44 (0) 870 160 3270
Fax: ++ 44 (0) 870 160 3280
Email: jane@compost.org.uk
Web: www.compost.org.uk

The Composting Association is the leading membership organisation for composters in the UK. It actively promotes the sustainable management of biodegradable resources and advocates the use of biological treatment techniques. It encourages good management practices through out the industry. The Association has over 650 members and represents the interests of compost producers, local authorities, technology suppliers, compost users, community groups, academic institutions and other organisations involved with managing biodegradable wastes and marketing composted products. The Association works with Government and other regulators to ensure that an appropriate legislative and regulatory framework is in place to permit the sustainable development of commercial, community and domestic biological treatment capacity. By advocating a suitable regulatory and economic framework, the Association works to ensure the long-term sustainability of the biological treatment industry.

Coffee Break

Fingal County Council

Contact: Mary McCarthy,

Brown bin project, Watery Lane, Swords, Co. Dublin.

Tel: ++ 353 (0) 8708418

Web: www.fingalcoco.ie

Fingal County Council is one of the four local authorities in the Dublin region with an administrative area covering the north and west of the county.  According to the most recent census (2006) Fingal has a population of  239,813 and 84,796 households.  The provision of a separate collection for organic waste from households is one of the objectives of the Waste Management Plan for the Dublin Region and in the latter part of 2005 Fingal commenced a pilot brown bin collection service on a number of bin routes in its area.  To date this service has been extended to c 14,000 households with the ultimate aim of rolling out the service to all households in the Fingal area.

Coffee Break

 OCAE Consultants

Contact: David O’Connell

Ballinderry House,

Enfield, Co. Meath

Tel: ++ 353 (0) 46 9555591

Fax: ++ 353 (0) 46 9555602

Email: ocagri@iol.ie

OCAE Consultants was established in 1997. Clients include the arable and livestock sector in Ireland. OCAE also provides specialist consultancy to bloodstock clients in Ireland, the UK, Germany & Spain. OCAE are an approved Rural Environmental Protection Scheme (REPS) agency by the Department of Agriculture and Food. Environmental consultancy is predominantly provided to clients in the food, drinks and composting industries and ranges from land bank management, Nutrient Management Planning to the preparation of Waste Management Permit (WMP) applications.

OCAE is currently conducting research on the recovery of organic by-products to agricultural land and management techniques for parasite control. The OCAE personnel comprise of specialists directly employed by OCAE and a network of independent consultants who are contracted on a project by project basis. The multi-disciplinary team allows OCAE to provide a comprehensive and effective package to its clients.

Coffee Break

McGill

Contact: Fiona Doyle

Ballinvoher, Castletownroche,

Co. Cork

Tel: ++ 353 (0) 22 26900

Fax:++ 353 (0) 022 26946

Email: fiona@mcgillireland.com

Web: www.mcgillireland.com

McGill Environmental Systems (Ireland) Ltd. was founded McGill in Ireland in 1996. McGill specializes in the composting of non-hazardous industrial and sewage sludges, waste fruit and vegetables, and other non-hazardous biodegradable materials. The company operates a 200 tonne per week facility at Castletownroche, Co. Cork, and have a second facility in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, which can compost up to another 200 tonne per week. McGill have also entered into a partnership with Pat O’Donnell, OD Recycling Ltd. Clonmel, who has converted his facility to the McGill specifications, where they compost up to 150 tonne of sludge per week.