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PRESS RELEASE: Brexit must not stop UK signing up to new EU recycling targets – ADBA

The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry has welcomed the endorsement of EU ambassadors for the four legislative proposals of the European Union’s waste package, and called for the UK to sign up to the targets included in the proposals irrespective of its future relationship with the EU.

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Tags: adba press release, Charlotte Morton, Circular Economy, food waste collections, food waste, anaerobic digestion, landfill

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: South Africa’s first independent landfill gas generation scheme powers up

South Africa's first independent landfill gas-to-power project has begun generation in Johannesburg - providing 3MW of renewable electricity, enough to supply more than 5,500 homes. Project developer ENERGY Systems has started operation at Robinson Deep landfill site in Johannesburg. This is the first stage of a £7.2 million (circa 130 million…

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Tags: gas-to-power, south africa, landfill, renewable energy

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Geotech customer feedback continues to improve user experience

Geotech is due to roll out its latest firmware upgrades to its 5000 platform of portable gas analysers for landfill and biogas monitoring.  Based on customer feedback and continuous improvement, Geotech is eager to share the benefits that the latest upgrades offer to landfill and biogas plant operators using Geotech…

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Tags: member's press release, Geotech, gas analysers, landfill, ga5000, gem5000, biogas 5000, new product introduction, ch4, software

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ADBA outlines wish list ahead of Budget Statement

With this year's feed in tariff cap for anaerobic digestion almost full already, it's time for the Chancellor to commit more resources to delivering viable baseload capacity through AD to secure our electricity supplies. In addition, industry urges the Chancellor to recognise the Committee on Climate Change…

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Tags: press, media, budget, chancellor, FIT, baseload energy, CCC, fifth carbon budget, on-farm AD, biodegradable waste, landfill, separate food waste collections, Circular Economy

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: dewatering and compacting of reject from food waste plant

Huber UK, as part of their ongoing development programme to solve their customer’s requirements, have been developing and testing well proven equipment in the applications arising on Anaerobic Digestion plants. One area looked at has been to reduce the amount of rejects from the de-packaging units in order…

Posted in: Members' press release

Tags: member's press release, huber uk, huber technology, de-packaging, landfill, food waste, plastics, Tamar Energy, wap-l unit, Derek Sivyer

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Suite of biogas events kick off business in 2016 for Geotech

Geotech is inviting colleagues, consultants and technicians with the Landfill and Biogas industry to their UK Biogas Seminar next week.  Held on Thursday 28 January 2016 at their headquarters in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the event is part of a suite of seminars being rolled out throughout the world in quarter one…

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Tags: member's press release, Geotech, landfill, biogas, uk biogas seminar, leamington spa, Malaysia, exports, ab-en, Derek Sivyer

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: 15,000 tonnes of turkey and Christmas pudding recycled for green energy

A staggering 15,000 tonnes of festive food, the same weight as 45 Boeing 747’s, was transformed into renewable energy by food waste recycling leaders Biogen over the holiday season. The mountain of food waste, which would otherwise have gone to landfill or incineration, was processed across the company’s national…

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Tags: member's press release, food waste, christmas, turkey, Biogen, landfill, incineration, simon musther, colin burns, merevale, warwickshire, biofertiliser, Derek Sivyer

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Parliament favours anaerobic digestion for food waste disposal

While the government still drags its feet over action to reduce council tax bills by diverting food waste from expensive landfill through segregated collection services, the House of Commons has acted to send on-site food waste from Parliament’s canteens to anaerobic digestion (AD).  The representative for the…

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Tags: press release, council tax, landfill, Parliament, pq, House of Commons, food waste, tom brake, recycling targets, European Commission, circular economy package, CCC, fifth carbon budget, Charlotte Morton, Derek Sivyer, anaerobic digestion

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Green gas vital to UK carbon abatement

In the wake of a “historic” agreement reached at the Paris Climate Change conference, with a commitment to keep global temperatures well below 20C, the UK government’s revised green gas strategy could place anaerobic digestion (AD) at the heart of UK carbon abatement efforts.  ADBA…

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Tags: press release, paris climate change conference, carbon abatement, greenhouse gases, green gas, government, David Cameron, renewable heat, FIT, fossil fuels, food waste, fertiliser, landfill, decarbonise, farming, transport, heat, electricity, Charlotte Morton, Derek Sivyer

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New EU Circular Economy Package encourages separate food waste collections

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Last week (Dec. 2), the revised EU Circular Economy Package (CEP): Closing the loop – an EU action plan for the Circular Economy was launched by Vice-President Frans Timmermans of the European Commission.   This document announced legislation for the next four year period and will influence member state objectives and…

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Tags: food waste, anaerobic digestion, Defra, digestate, European Commission, circular economy package, biowaste, landfill, biofertiliser

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Green gas industry could quadruple with new RHI budget - ADBA forecast

The £1.15 billion allocation for the RHI budget by 2021, announced during the Chancellor’s Spending Review statement last week, could support the construction of an additional 140 biomethane plants – a fourfold increase on current numbers and with the combined potential to heat almost 500,000 homes. The data, released today…

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Tags: press release, spending review, biomethane, RHI, market report, forecast, carbon abatement, energy security, jobs, DECC, natural gas, indigenous gas, municipal waste, food waste, farming resilience, food production, resource management, HGVs, FIT, waste treatment, fifth carbon budget, committee on climate change, CCC, greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture, fossil fuel emissions, renewable energy, manure, landfill, digestate

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5th carbon budget advice urges action to decarbonise farming and waste treatment

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has today heaped pressure on the government increase the pace of carbon abatement, particularly within the farming and waste treatment industries.   The CCC’s fifth carbon budget, covering the period 2028-2032, is aimed at ensuring that the UK remains on course to…

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Tags: press release, committee on climate change, CCC, matthew bell, carbon abatement, co2, waste treatment, farming, GHG emissions, fifth carbon budget, food waste, n2o, methane, manure management, fuel efficiency, fertiliser, fossil fuel emissions, manure, landfill, low-carbon, green energy, feed-in tariff, FIT, ADBA National Conference, Renewable Heat Incentive, RHI, HGV, road emissions, hinkley point c, baseload energy

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PARTNERSHIP MEDIA: Minister backs industry’s plans to tackle food waste recycling

ADBA's Head of Policy, Matt Hindle, recently updated members on the new action plan for food waste recycling that kicked off last week, during which key players from across the industry got together for the inaugural meeting in Birmingham; initiated by resource efficiency experts WRAP and chaired by waste…

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Tags: press release, food waste, Wrap, action plan, marcus gover, ray georgeson, steering group, rory stewart, Defra, Minister, resource, landfill, Matt Hindle, Derek Sivyer

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Measuring gases in AD and landfill – choosing the right product

With over 30 years’ experience in the landfill and biogas sector, Geotech is synonymous with gas analysis, supplying monitoring equipment to over half of the UK biogas and landfill market, with a further 4000 portable gas analysers sold throughout the world.  Geotech’s product portfolio is tailored to satisfy…

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Tags: member's press release, Geotech, gas analysis, monitoring equipment, biogas, farm waste, small scale, food waste, landfill, data storage, Derek Sivyer

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MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: HRS helps turn London’s food waste into fertiliser

HRS Heat Exchangers has won an order for its novel Digestate Concentration System (DCS) from Willen Biogas at a new multi-million pound anaerobic digestion plant which is currently being constructed at Cattlegate Farm in Enfield near London. The system will reduce the requirement to store and apply digestate (a nutrient…

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Tags: member's press release, hrs heat exchangers, digestate concentration system, willen biogas, cattlegate farm, digestate, biofertiliser, food waste, landfill, adrian williams, matt hale, matthew pencharz, Mayor of London, London, nutrients, Derek Sivyer

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