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Three companies have joined forces to create waste plastic to hydrogen facilities across the UK. Peel Environmental has signed a collaboration agreement with Waste2Tricity and PowerHouse Energy which will see 11 waste plastic to hydrogen facilities developed. The £130 million (€140 million) investment follows the announcement that the first facility will be located at Peel…
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Global resource management company Veolia and Hertfordshire County Council have ended their £1 billion (€892.6 million) waste management contract in the UK. The decision follows the refusal of an application to build a 320,000 tonnes per year energy from waste plant. Hertfordshire County Council has vowed to go back to the market to find an outlet for the 250,000 tonnes of waste the county…
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Waste management companies Viridor, Suez and ETM have been granted 10-year contracts by the West of England Partnership to treat the region’s residual and bulky waste. Under the new contracts, which will begin in March 2020, Viridor and Suez will handle 120,000 tonnes and 50,000 tonnes of kerbside black bag residual waste, respectively. ETM will take 45,500 tonnes of bulky waste mainly from…
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Boson Energy gasification systems will be part of Stadtwerke Göttingen’s new 9 MW and €15 million bio-heat centre. The centre will upgrade the existing combined heat and power capacity. It will supply green heat to customers of Stadtwerke Göttingen with a view to also supply district cooling in the future. Göttingen is one of the ‘green cities’ of Germany and…
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UK Cities ramp up the fight against air pollution; bio-LNG gains traction as a solution to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles; prototype methane-fuelled tractor on display at UK AD and World Biogas Expo; and global outlook for biomethane and infrastructure development key topic at co-located World Biogas Summit. Bristol City Mayor Martin Rees announced on Thursday last week a consultation on…
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Norwegian state-owned airport operator Avinor has partnered with Quantafuel to purchase sustainable aviation fuel derived from domestic biomass. According to Avinor, the biofuel will be produced in a pilot plant, which will be partly funded by Norwegian investment bank ENOVA. Avinor has committed to purchase fuel for NOK 8 million (€827,505). “Sustainable aviation fuel is essential to…
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2019 Awards winners were revealed across 14 categories in a ceremony on 3 July that celebrated industry excellence in the UK and worldwide. The crème de la crème in the anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas industry gathered at the AD & Biogas Industry Awards Ceremony 2019 in Birmingham to celebrate those organisations and individuals who demonstrated outstanding commitment to…
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Using compact gasification technology to convert waste into thermal energy and biochar (carbonised biomass), the system could help to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20 per cent. The smart waste management system could enable sustainable zero-waste districts to be viable in Singapore, bringing the country closer towards a circular economy. At Ecosperity Week 2019, SP and Gardens by the Bay…
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Yesterday saw the formal launch of the latest phase of Supergen, UK Research and Innovation’s flagship programme to deliver coordinated research on sustainable energy generation, supply, distribution and use. The four research hubs that comprise the energy programme will welcome members of parliament, policy makers and industry representatives to the meeting hosted by James Heappey MP at…
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By swapping contractors for an in-house team, and offering better quality cake, Severn Trent is signalling a step change in its biosolids offering. Bioresources logistics manager for Severn Trent, Joseph Stack, explains that the company has insourced the Farm Liaison team. “We’re now able to talk directly to farmers about what they want and have invested in our team and…
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The Nemo® B.Max® Mixing Pump if for transferring substrates to a biogas plant. The pump is well-suited for fermented renewable raw material, liquid manure, solid manure, process water, biowaste and food waste. It is also a good choice for preprocessed slaughterhouse waste, concentrated substrates and slop. The pump also handles substrates that must be mixed with process water or liquid…
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A new food waste plan unveiled by the Scottish government and Zero Waste Scotland may encourage farmers and landowners in Scotland to invest in anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities. The Food Waste Reduction Plan (FWRAP) includes measures to ensure that homes with access to food recycling facilities in Scotland are using them, which presents an opportunity for the construction of more AD…
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The UK trade body for the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association, ADBA, called on the government to introduce bespoke low-carbon Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme to support small-scale renewable technologies on the day the Feed-In Tariff (FiT) has ended. The UK AD industry currently has capacity to power 1.2 million households, offering…
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The Environmental Journal has reported that UK researchers have developed a new green technology that generates electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks. The project is led by the University of Nottingham and hopes to benefit Ghanaian farming communities with little or no access to grid power. The green technology project aims to spawn an entirely new biofuel industry which would create new…
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