Perfil de los miembros
Sr. Tip O'Neill
Organización:
International Raw Materials LTD
País:
Estados Unidos de América
Campo(s) de especialización:
Sr. Tip O'Neill
On behalf of International Raw Materials LTD a Philadelphia based fertilizer distribution company that is actively involved in the SDG process through our industry association IFA, I would like to suggest including nutrient recycling under Objective 3 to read:
“minimizing the environmental impacts from the production and use of fertilizers including pollution by loss of nutrients via runoff, leaching, greenhouse gas emissions and other mechanisms; by facilitating broad scale implementation of nutrient recycling from both organic and industrial sources.”
The fertilizer industry is uniquely positioned to address environmental challenges through better management of chemical waste by recovering and transforming industrial by-products into useful re-purposed climate-smart crop nutrients.
These climate-smart fertilizers are re-introduced back into a circular economy, essentially feeding the soils that feed the crops that feed people. Prior to climate-smart fertilizer recycling, these molecules were lost to the environment.
Nowadays, for instance, our company, IRM, markets close to 1 million metric tons of climate-smart fertilizer captured from industrial production streams in the US, Canada, Australia and Madagascar every year. These recovered essential molecules are given a second life and are distributed across the globe in regions where soils are starved for crop nutrients.