June 19th, 2009 by waster
WASTE 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.
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March 26th, 2009 by waster
23-03-2009
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, as part [...]
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January 28th, 2009 by waster
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 on behalf of [...]
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January 1st, 2009 by waster
A 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!
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June 5th, 2008 by waster
The 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 operational [...]
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February 24th, 2008 by waster
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 of [...]
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January 8th, 2008 by waster
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 giant announced today [...]
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December 10th, 2007 by waster
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 materials going to landfill.
The most significant challenge facing the management of Municipal Solid Waste is how [...]
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October 15th, 2007 by waster
As new regulations are introduced there is a heavy requirement to train all personnel involved. The following seminar will be particulalry well recieved. – The Waster
On the 26th October CIWM are holding a low cost 2 hour seminar to provide delegates with the information they need to comply with the landfill directive requirements to pre-treat waste before [...]
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October 12th, 2007 by waster
One Day Conference
25th October 2007 • The Source, Sheffield
There are two great challenges facing land use management over next decade: i) the control of diffuse pollution in order to meet the requirements of both the Water Framework Directive and the water industry; and, ii) the need to address the fall in soil organic levels that [...]
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