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The risky business of resource recovery
Waste management operations, like any transport business, have many risks attached to them and all operators should avoid the “Dodgy Brothers” ignore-the-risks to save costs approach! Any transport business with large vehicles working in tight city and site access areas is prone to accidents and near miss incidents. Add to that the hazards of working with lifting, loading and compacting systems. Then there’s situation hazards such as poor lighting in laneway’s, coping with drunk patrons early in ... |
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Climate change impacts of food waste diversion to anaerobic digesters
Treating food waste (FW) by anaerobic digestion to recover biogas and biofertiliser is a fantastic opportunity. The biogas is renewable, base-load, non-fossil energy. Using the digestate on land as biofertiliser completes nutrient cycles and conserves soil organic matter. The Part-503 rules protect health and the environment. Existing sludge digesters can be ‘turbo-charged’ by retrofitting thermal hydrolysis, which allows the solids loading to be doubled or trebled, the specific biogas yield to ... |
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