New Video Explains the AD Process

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!At present more than 65% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated in England is disposed of in landfills.
The introduction of the EC landfill directive means that the European Commission has set targets to reduce the levels of biodegradable [...]

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Renewable Energy ‘07 - Last Chance to Book NCE Conference London

We are well into the conference season and frankly we have never seen so many renewable energy events and conferences as this season. It seems that all the major event players will soon have their own offering.
This is a very last minute opportunity for booking attendance for the NCE (New Civil Engineer magazine/EMap) 1 day [...]

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New ArrowBio MBT & Anaerobic Digestion Facility Project Starts

In July 2007, Oaktech Environmental signed a contract with Avondale Environmental Ltd. to commence the Design Development of a 70,000 tonnes per annum ArrowBio facility at the Avondale Landfill Site in Falkirk, Scotland.
The ArrowBio process is described as a unique, water-based mechanical-biological treatment for solid waste, which includes anaerobic digestion stages.
ArrowBio’s strengths are stated as [...]

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CIWM Events in Waste Processing During September

THERMAL TREATMENT- SATISFYING DIVERSION TARGETS AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION
Monday 17 September 2007 at Hamilton House, London. For further details please visit http://www.ciwmconferences.com or contact the events department at events@ciwm.co.uk Tel. 01604 620426. 
GET YOUR ROCs OFF WITH AD!
Tuesday 25 September 2007 at Hilton National Hotel, Coventry.  For further details please visit www.ciwmconferences.com or contact the events department [...]

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WRAP Re-Issue Alternate Weekly Collection Scheme Guidance

There has been nothing as contentious for a long while in the Waste Management scene as alternate weekly collection schemes (AWCS). So it is interesting to note the new guidance: Waster
WRAP have re-issued their guidance on alternate weekly collection schemes. Included within the revised guidance is a suggestion that to meet Landfill Directive requirements it [...]

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Combined Anaerobic Digestion/In Vessel Composting Plant Announced for Northamptonshire

A newly established organics company has announced this week that it will be opening a composting facility in Northamptonshire next April which will combine anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting.
The Bio Group, which formed this May as a joint venture between in-vessel specialists Cambridge Recycling Services (CRS), composting machinery providers Global Recycling Solutions as well as [...]

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NCE: Peterborough City Council Will Announce New Approach to Financing Waste

We are told (New Civil Engineer 24 may 2007) that Peterborough City Council has plans to announce a new approach to financing which it has devised with the Collaborative Working Centre. This will include financing models for a new £56 million energy from waste (EfW) incinerator.
It appears that two facilities are to be built in [...]

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UK Waste Strategy 2007 Published

We have added just one post about the New Waste Strategy which has just been published: To find out more about the Waste Strategy 2007 we recommend a visit to the Letsrecycle web site here.
 STRATEGY: Specific material type landfill bans on agenda
The first three chapters of Waste Strategy 2007 contain a number of key areas of [...]

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Flame from Green Compost Container Kills Elderly Man

BRUSSELS - A spontaneous flame from a green box/compost container has cost the life of an 81-year-old man from the Flemish town of Hamme.
It is possible that explosive gases had built up in the green box/compost container. The flame caught fire on the man’s clothes, which then burned him.
"Next to the vegetables, fruit and [...]

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Anaerobic Digestion “Big Opportunity” for Municipal Waste

Urban-based local authorities should consider anaerobic digestion (AD) as an alternative to in-vessel composting for the recycling of municipal biodegradable food waste, according to researchers at WRAP. Speaking today (23 April 2007) at the annual Recycling and Waste Forum in Birmingham on Thursday, WRAP’s organics supply programme manager Louise Hollingworth said: “In-vessel composting is [...]

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