Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion

Mr. Tony Breton:

I will follow up on this and come back to the complementary-competing issue. If we look at where the UK is with its digestion industry today one of the big concerns the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs now has is with regard to ammonia, nitrous oxide and other emissions coming from digestate spreading. This is because of the way that Department went on a dash for gas. If we look elsewhere in Europe, where composting and digestion are seen as complementary there are not as many issues. This is because, and I will keep repeating this point, we need to get the right things back into the soil. By combining digestion and composting or pelletising the digestate, and doing something with the digestate other than spreading it whole, the systems will be brought together better.

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