Up close and personal with: Daniel Broad, senior operations manager at BIOGEST

What first drew you to this industry?“For over 18 years I worked as a mechanic in the car industry, growing to run my garage eventually. Seeing the future of cars going down the electrical route and already attending more training courses in diagnostics than I like to remember, plus spending a small fortune on diagnostic equipment, I decided I’d had enough. “However, I agreed that changes needed to be made to prolong and improve the environment, so I started looking for a different path. I first looked into wind turbines, but this didn’t give me the ‘buzz’ I was looking for. In my eyes, it was just a ‘big engine’ that runs on the wind. “After a bit more research, I started looking into anaerobic digestion and remembered a previous client of mine saying he was getting an AD plant built and that I should come and take a look. So, a phone call later, and I was on my way to the plant. Straight away, I knew this was the one for me. Producing gas from waste has to be the future. Let’s face it: we will always have waste! “We agreed that I would start to operate the plant after successfully completing the training from the partners in the project who also built...