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MEMBER PRESS RELEASE - Wiltshire-based biogas plant outlines “significantly negative” CO2 emissions

Results from Life Cycle Assessment outline the important role that small- scale anaerobic digestion can play in decarbonising food supply chain as part of the Government’s Net Zero and Green Recovery commitments As the UK Government is urged to ‘dramatically scale up’ its net zero…

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Tags: malaby biogas, small scale AD, net zero, green recovery, life cycle assessment, green jobs, negative emissions, food waste

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Put renewables at heart of green recovery, say trade bodies

Put renewables at heart of green recovery, say trade bodies Renewables trade bodies and related associations write to Chancellor calling for renewables to be placed at the heart of the post Covid-19 green recovery plans to ensure we #buildbackbetter A consortium of trade associations representing the renewables industry and related…

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Tags: anaerobic digestion, biogas, Charlotte Morton, renewables, green recovery, chancellor, rishi sunak, REA, eca, Scottish Renewables, ade, uksif, green jobs

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Food Waste Collections Series: Part 2: Job creation

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This blog is Part 2 of the Food Waste Collections Series where we are outlining the evidence we have collected on the benefits of introducing separate food waste collections in England. This evidence was submitted to DEFRA two weeks ago with the hope that this will help inform the upcoming…

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Tags: Defra, anaerobic digestion, biogas, biomethane, separate food waste collections, food waste collections, green jobs, jobs, UK AD & Biogas, emiliano lewis

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Industry urges policy detail as Shadow Energy Secretary reinforces Labour’s support for green gas

Last month ADBA welcomed a Labour Party policy document, which reiterated the Party’s aspiration to make Great Britain a world leader in low carbon technology and green jobs. Key green objectives outlined in the policy document include: Creating a million new high technology, green jobs by 2025. Setting a…

Posted in: Policy updates

Tags: labour party, green gas, green jobs, biomethane, Derek Sivyer, Green investment Bank, lobby strategy, lobbying, MP, Parliament, lanfill ban, food waste

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UK business and trade bodies unite against EU plans to axe circular economy package

Resources & Environmental Management Industries, Manufacturers and NGOs have today united in opposition against EU plans, due to be put before a vote of the European Commission today, on its work programme for 2015, which may remove support for the Circular Economy package. The UK’s most influential representative bodies…

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Tags: EU, foe, eef, eic, tag, Circular Economy, green jobs, Derek Sivyer

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AD growth at risk without access to food waste collections

The latest official data for the calendar year 2013 shows that the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry has benefited from strong growth, with feedstock use and operational capacity up by over 50% and full-time employment in AD up by 36%.  While WRAP’s Annual Survey of the Organics Reprocessing Industry confirms the…

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Tags: Wrap, food waste, green jobs, Derek Sivyer, landfill ban

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Labour reinforces green jobs pledge

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The Labour Party has set out its core priorities in a policy document ahead of its official manifesto launch in the early New Year. As part of the Party’s 10 core pledges, Labour have reiterated its aspiration to make Britain a world leader in low carbon technology and green…

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Tags: Labour, Parliament, Derek Sivyer, general election, green jobs, lobby strategy, DECC, caroline flint

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