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Tags: benefit, Commercial, Efficiency, environment, Operators, Processes, recyclate, Register, Scottish, sorp, sorp event, SORP Producer to User, Source, Vessels, wasteIt has emerged that the European Parliament’s environment committee is set to consider a draft report (April 28) drawn up by one of its members that urges the European Commission to develop proposals for a specific bio-waste directive by the end of 2010. Bio-waste management (AD and Composting) has economic benefits which should be utilised EU wide.
Tags: bio-waste, Composting, eu bio-waste directive, eu landfill directive, garden waste management, green waste, landfillThe UK Biofertiliser Certification Scheme provides guarantee to customers, farmers, food producers and shops that biofertiliser is safe and of high quality.
Tags: biofertiliser, carbon-free fertilizer, environment, human, organic, plant health, Renewable Energy AssociationWASTE DIVERSION FROM LANDFILL – A five-year interim residual waste management contract has been won by New Earth Solutions for the West of England Partnership. Of the 120,000 tonnes fed in to the plant, more than 50% will be reduced through losses in mass.
Tags: disposal operations, landfill sites, Municipal, recycling, UK, waste management, waste processing, WRAP23-03-2009 Wiltshire county council has given the go-ahead for Marlborough-based waste management company Hills Group to build a £15 million mechanical biological treatment (MBT) facility at Westbury. The county council awarded planning permission last week (March 18) for Hills to develop the 45,000 tonne-a-year capacity plant, which will be known as the Northacre Recovery Centre, [...]
Energos Appointed Preferred Bidder to Derby Gasification Project 26-01-2009 Gasification specialists Energos have been appointed to provide the technology for a multi-million pound waste treatment facility being built in Derby. The company, which is part of Manchester-based renewable energy firm ENER-G, will help to develop a 140,000 tonne-a-year gasification facility on Sinfin Lane in Derby [...]
Tags: derby city council, derbyshire county council, ENER-G, energos, energy firm, gasification, interserve, isle of wight, joint venture project, landfill, municipal solid waste, municipal solid waste management, national grid, PFI, preferred bidder, Sinfin Lane, Technology, Treatment, waste management, waste management facility, waste recyclingA summary of the year in blogging at the Wastersblog. The Waster says what he thinks about EU Legislation, the recession in recycling which has produced the recycling cost scandal, and the wisdom of the UK in signing up as it did to the Landfill Directive reluctantly and only in exchange for a deal with the Spanish on fishing quotas!
Tags: ambitious plans, city contracts, contract negotiations, GMWDA, greater manchester, incineration, landfill, landfill directive, Maastricht, massive investment, pfi contracts, recycling, secondary resource, stories of success, target, waste disposal authority, waste diversion, waste management companies, wastersThe following shows that it can be hard driving a new waste treatment technology forward as an organisation participating in one of Defra’s Demonstrator Projects, and things possibly don’t always go quite as expected. Nevertheless, this is exactly why public money is being well spent when put into these projects. Defra Demonstrator Projects are full scale [...]
Wisconsin State Journal – Landfill will get longer life; bioreactor planned - by Ron Seely With space left for just six years worth of garbage in the Dane County Landfill, officials are on the verge of re-engineering the 76-acre site to install a controversial system that will hasten the decomposition of waste and extend the operation [...]
Energy giant buys deal. 02-01-2008 Scottish and Southern Energy has acquired Slough Heat and Power, which runs one of the UK’s largest biomass plants using wastes to generate energy, in a £49.25 million deal. Slough Heat and Power, which operates a combined heat and power plant, has been acquired by Scottish and Southern Energy. The power [...]
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