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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most UK businesses are “completely unprepared” for major new waste regulations coming in on October 31, requiring waste to be “pre-treated” before it is sent to landfill. That is the view of business advisory company Grant Thornton, which said the “vast majority” of companies in this country are not ready for the legislation, which will [...]
Almost half of waste treatment solutions on the UK market have not been “proven” to work effectively, a newly-published report has revealed. Gloucestershire-based consultancy firm Juniper analysed around 300 processes offered by companies across 25 countries for the report, as well as the individual companies offering the technology. It said the aim was to provide [...]
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 [...]
Waste firm Shanks has invested in a new recycling service for smaller volumes of commercial and industrial waste, ahead of new pre-treatment regulations coming into effect in October. The Small Volume Recycling Service will allow Shanks customers to put mixed recyclables, paper, plastic, card, tins cans and plastic bottles into specially labelled containers to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The UK’s Chartered Institution of Waste Management (CIWM) has announced the launch of two new training courses: ‘Local Environmental Management (Streetscene)’ and ‘Waste Carriers and Related Controls’. They have also re-launched 3 additional courses, ‘Leachate Monitoring’ (developed and delivered by Howard Robinson), ‘Introduction to Waste Legislation’, and ‘Geology, Hydrology and Hydrogeology for Waste Management Facilities’. For [...]
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