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Sardinia Symposium Training Course News and Newsletter August 2009
Tags: bioenergy, Environmental, enviros consulting, generation, landfill, landfill gas, landfill mining, landfill site, landfill sites, landfills, leachate, leachate treatment, legislation, Municipal, SARDINIA 2009, Sardinia Symposium, Technology, Treatment, types of landfills, waste, waste management, waste management strategies, wasterTwo big Waste Processing Facilities have been halted after UK County Council plans have been derailed well into these projects. The question is asked when our society which produces so much waste will take responsibility for dealing with it in their local area, even when enormous sums are about to be spent on a new generation of vastly improved Waste Treatment Plants.
Tags: efw, environment, landfill, PFI, planning permission, Technology, UK, waste, waste management, waste processing23-03-2009
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 [...]
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced a £800,000 package to help reduce the amount of waste being sent to landfills in Wales of which £100,000 to help Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. In Merthyr Tydfil, the funding will be used for a door-knocking campaign to encourage more households to recycle.
The remainder of the £800,000 is expected to be used to support plastics recycling in Wales and develop “Zero waste places”.
Tags: environment, landfill, Municipal, recycling, rubbish, waste recycling, welsh assembly governmentEnergos 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 [...]
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 recyclingThe National Audit Office has reported that the English local authorities are too slow awarding PFI contracts for England to achieve the ordered 50% organic waste diversion away from landfill by 2013. This article explains this and why the situation may be getting worse due to the credit crunch.
Tags: banking, Biodegradable, biodegradable waste, credit crunch, environment, government, government auditor, greater manchester, landfill, national audit office, NCE, new civil engineer, pfi contracts, public spending, renegotiation, waste diversion from landfill, waste processing, wasterReduced landfill saves council £2.1m
MRW – Claire Churchard, 08 Jan 2009
Cheshire County Council has saved £2.1 million by reducing the waste it sends to landfill.
The council has been able to free-up the cash due to a forecast 20 per cent reduction in landfill use, equalling about 50,000 tonnes.
“There has been a significant fall in the [...]
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!
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, wastersBritain’s paper recycling strategy is under increasing strain after a collapse in waste prices in recent weeks, according to a leading industry organisation. The worst-case scenario is that some material collected for recycling could go to incineration or landfill.
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