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Implementation plan to make England AD `world leaders`
Local authorities, businesses and farmers will be given more Government advice and shown more demonstration projects to communicate how anaerobic digestion can best be used in England. Accelerating the Uptake of Anaerobic Digestion in England: an Implementation Plan has been published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in response to recommendations made by the Anaerobic ...
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Welsh assembly unveils new waste strategy
A zero waste strategy has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government containing a 70% recycling and composting target. Towards Zero Waste is an update of the Welsh Assembly’s 2002 Wise About Waste strategy, which provides a policy framework to deliver an ultimate target of becoming a zero waste society by 2050. Launched today, the strategy sets out a framework of policies aimed at meeting ...
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Peterborough announces shortlisted bidders for waste tenders
Peterborough City Council has today (7 January) published its shortlist of bidders for the provision of an energy-from-waste plant, improved materials recycling facility and various operational waste services. There are separate contracts for each facility and bidders could bid for each contract. A Peterborough City Council spokesman said that it was feasible that one company could win two ...
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Biffa signs three-year contract to take Sainsbury`s food waste
Waste management firm Biffa has signed a contract with Sainsbury’s to process its Midlands food waste using anaerobic digestion. Over three years, Biffa will handle food waste from 40 Sainsbury’s Midlands stores in another step towards diverting all the supermarket’s food waste from landfill. Sainsbury’s commercial director Neil Sachdev said: “We are the industry leader in the use of anaerobic ...
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New biodegradable waste management plans proposed and evaluated
Researchers have designed and proposed a new organic waste management plan for Catalonia, Spain, and presented it in a recent study. They say that the plan would reduce a number of environmental impacts that arise from landfilling biodegradable waste, including natural resource depletion, acidification, and eutrophication. To reduce the negative environmental effects of landfilling and to ...
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Italy referred back to Court over waste management in Campania, Commission asks for fines
On the recommendation of Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik, the European Commission has decided to refer Italy back to the European Court of Justice for its long-running failure to manage waste adequately in the Campania region more than three years after a previous ruling. Under EU law, Member States must recover and dispose of waste in a manner that does not endanger human health and ...
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Leading Anaerobic digestion firm calls for ban on food waste to landfill
Localised collection rules are hampering the plans to build 40 anaerobic digestion plants, warns Tamar Energy. The UK government has been called upon by the UK’s first large-scale anaerobic digestion developer, asking to ban food waste from landfill to help the UK meets its 2020 renewable energy targets. The government were called upon after they unveiled its second annual progress report ...
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Axion Engineering shows the lighter side of recycling technology at RWM 2011
Resource recovery specialist Axion Engineering makes its sales and marketing debut with NESTRO Lufftechnik GmbH at the UK's premier waste management show RWM 2011 to showcase NESTRO’s range of highly-efficient air separation technologies for diverse waste material streams, including those from kerbside recycling, mixed plastics, paper/card/wood, energy from waste and construction sectors. ...
By Axion Group
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The Keys to Waste Management 2023
“The recycling sector has clear reasons to feel optimistic in this 2023” could be the phrase that defines the beginning of this new year. At a time when most industries are navigating uncertainty, the recycling sector is shoring up its pillars and, thanks to technological innovation, is preparing for a record year.?But why this optimism? This is what waste management will look like ...
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A productive collaboration begins with a dominant goal: to became Crete zero-emission island in 2030
Crete, one of Greece’s top holiday destinations and battered by flooding last week, has identified key actions become a zero-emissions island by 2030 by boosting use of renewable energy and electric cars, optimising its water resources and recycling waste as a way to protect its local environment and make the island more resilient to climate change. The priorities emerged from the first in ...
By Siemens AG
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