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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.
Tags: disposal operations, landfill sites, Municipal, recycling, UK, waste management, waste processing, WRAPConference sessions will cover composting, woody biomass, food waste composting, anaerobic digestion of animal waste, food waste recycling in resorts and parks, and much more.
Tags: food waste, infrastructure, integrated waste management, recycling, UK, waste, waste diversion, waste management, waste recyclingTwo 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 processingPlanning Bill receives Royal Assent…
Michael Donnelly, PlanningResource, 27 November 2008
The Planning Bill has completed the legislative process after receiving Royal Assent last night.
The government says the Planning Act 2008 will enable decisions on major infrastructure projects in areas such as energy, aviation, road and rail transport, water and waste to be taken much more speedily [...]
Tags: approval, Bill, carbon, climate, Commission, energy infrastructure, environment, generation, government, Hazel Blears, infrastructure, infrastructure planning, infrastructure projects, legislation, national infrastructure, national policy statements, planning decisions, Planning Resource, power, practice, rail transport, transport water, UK, windBritain’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.
A new Waste Design Guide titled; “Designing Waste Facilities, a key guide to modern design in waste”, has been produced by Enviros Consulting for Defra, in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). This new document is expected to become a key reference document for waste professionals in the UK [...]
Contaminated soils to be subject to Landfill Tax
The Landfill Tax exemption which applies to waste material arising from the reclamation from contaminated land is to be phased out by 2012, a House of Commons committee agreed on Monday (October 27).
The move, which is expected to generate an additional £40 million in revenues for the [...]
There have been a number of events and conferences that have taken place so far this Autumn in the waste field that have been set up with the key driver of reducing waste sent to landfill.
The UK government’s Defra funded New Technology Demonstrator Programme (NTDP) features in many of the events. The NTDP sets [...]
£181.6m for project to save 391,000 tonnes of landfill waste
Waste facilities in Leicestershire and the South West will see major improvements thanks to a combined £181.6 million in funding announced by Defra today.
In Leicestershire, the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project is expecting to divert 98,000 tonnes of Biodegradable Municipal Waste from landfill in 2020. [...]
Tags: Biodegradable, carbon, CHP, Defra, directive, Diverted, environment, funding, heat, incentive, landfill, Leicestershire, Municipal, PFI, power, recycling, South West, Tonnes, UK, waste
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