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Landfill Energy Systems Power Ahead in the United States
There have been numerous news items in the last few months showing that activity in landfill energy systems is continuing at a high level in the US. The most popular of the landfill energy systems is landfill gas utilization, and progress with new LFG extraction and generation schemes is being announced every week, following EPA […]
List of the Top UK Civil Engineering Contractors 2012
NCE’s Annual Contractors File 2013 and List of Top UK Civil Engineering Contractors of 2012-13
How UK Landfill Problems Led To Action And A Plea For More Recycling In YOUR Kitchen
Still millions of people and companies all over the world that have yet to understand the potentially highly negative impact of landfill problems. Plus a plea for YOU to Recycle at home.
How Much Does It Cost To Tip Waste – A Good Question To Ask
How Much Does It Cost To Tip Waste? – It May Be Good Question To Ask; But It Is Hard To Give An Answer! A number of our website visitors have recently asked us how much it costs to tip waste. It is a simple question and you would think that it would be possible […]
Electronic Duty of Care – Tackling The Challenges to the UK Waste Industry of Going Digital
The edoc programme (electronic duty of care) – IT use in UK waste companies to create, share, sign and register waste transfers online from January 2014
How Much to Tip Waste? – Information on Landfill Gate Fees
Landfill Gate Fees in the UK – How Much to Tip Waste in the UK To answer the question of: “How much to tip waste?” for the citizens of the U.K. The UK government funded “WRAP” organisation publishes a Gate Fees Report annually. Its Gate Fees Report for 2012 is available on the WRAP website. […]
Why is it so Important that the UK Waste Industry Self Regulates SRF Quality
SRF Quality Rules! The use of refuse derived fuel (RDF) is an important subject due to the energy locked up within it, and it comprises a large component of today’s regulated waste disposal tonnage. Growing quantities of refuse derived fuel are becoming available as more waste processing facilities capable of separating waste materials into the […]
Carbon Capture and Storage – Quite Possibly The Last Chance Before Runaway Climate Change Becomes Unavoidable
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the only technology proposed at present that could enable emissions mitigation with continued use of fossil fuels, so why is it taking so long for it to be developed? Man generated energy-related CO2 emissions are higher than ever and further emissions increase seems inevitable. The rapid application of carbon […]
Will EDoc Be Enough To Bring The Waste Industry Into The 21st Century?
The Environment Agency (EA) has launched the national electronic duty of care programme (EDoc), due to roll out in 2014. It is set to modernise the way waste data is collected in the UK, moving the industry away from its antiquated paper-based system.
Landfill Tonnage Now Less Than Recycled Waste and Recyclate Quality Issues
Recyclate quality is one of two interesting topics in the News this month, within the waste industry in the UK. Both subjects have served to point up the rapid progress being made in the UK away from landfilling our waste. The use of recyclate as the main raw material for recycled products has grown to […]
Full Scale Autoclave Processing at AD Plant is World First for UK
Autoclave Processing Starts at New Dorset Anaerobic Digestion Plant The benefits of anaerobic digestion in waste treatment and management are now well known. Not only does this type of waste management reduce gas emissions, but the biogas which is produced can be used as a type of renewable energy. That’s sustainable energy which can be […]
Fracking Waste Spills in Youngstown Could be Repeated
As drilling rig exploration for shale fields suitable for natural gas extraction using the hydraulic fracturing method multiply, will the nation’s watercourses suffer more incidents like this Fracking Waste Spill in Youngstown? This incident occurred in the US. However, there is a new risk that such incidents will occur again in the US, and now […]
