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Magnetic surfactants in soap could improve pollution clean up
Scientists in England have created the first soap that can be controlled by magnets, which could revolutionise the cleanup of environmental disasters such as oil spills. The researchers, from the University of Bristol in England, made the soap by dissolving iron in chloride and bromide ions. The soap responded to the magnetic field, opening up the possibility of a detergent that can be used to clean pollution and also be lifted back out of sensitive environments. Peter Dowding, an industrial...
Maintenance projects present real opportunity for rental pumps
Smaller, maintenance-led projects present a real opportunity for pump rental companies. None more so than Pump Supplies, the owner and operator of the largest hire fleet of electric submersible pumps and accessories in the UK. Managing director, Andrew John states: “With their component manufacture and design, submersible pumps can operate at a high level of pumping efficiency using the latest technology N impellers developed by ITT Flygt and variable frequency drives which make pumping duties m...
BioStym Reduces the need for co-substrate in Anaerobic Digesters
In a pilot at a mesophilic anaerobic digester it was established that the use of BioStym led to a reduction in the need for co-substrates whilst maintaining the biogas yield. BioStym is a product developed with the purpose to improve the biological process in (co-) digester installations. The effect of BioStym on the digestion process was researched at a location in The Netherlands. For this purpose the biogas production and the quantity of digestion products where monitored during an eight week...
Waste Management, Recycling, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy South-East European Forum
28–30 March 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria The Early Bird Registration is running till 30 Jan! The European Commission accepted recently an Energy Roadmap 2050 which aims a very high share of RES in gross final energy consumption (75% in 2050) and a share of RES in electricity consumption reaching 97%. The other ambitious target is the landfills to be banned in 9 years - about 3 billion euro per year is the value of materials which can be got from reuse. South-East Europe will be a part of this world gr...
Professional and Comprehensive Trade Fair for Environmental Protection Solutions
Eco Expo Asia, the trade fair for environmental protection products, services and technologies is directly connected to enterprises and governments. Featuring comprehensive range of product categories, the exhibition has become the most effective and valuable hub for green business in Asia. The show is co-organised by the Environment Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and supported by government authorities from the Chinese mainland as well as international co...
Plastic bag debate resurfaces
The call for an EU response to tackle the use of plastic bags in the region has resurfaced after a public consultation found that 70 per cent of respondents believed an EU ban on plastic carrier bags is needed. 15,000 EU citizens responded to the consultation, which emphasises the support for action over the issue. So far, the absence of a cohesive response has left many countries in limbo, with piecemeal plans adopted in the different nation states. Both France and Italy have attempted to ban t...
Van Dalen boosts operation in the UK
Leading metals recycler Van Dalen has announced it is boosting its capacity in the UK, having invested over six million pounds and creating up to 25 jobs. The capital has gone towards the installation of a state-of-the art ferrous shredder and a new non-ferrous facility at the company’s Sheffield headquarters, as well as expansion at its facilities in the south east and the creation of new roles in purchasing and operations. Van Dalen, which celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2012, currently ope...
Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS) comes to aid of UK’s largest paper recycler
Effluent treatment specialist, Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS), has provided a D100 dissolved air flotation (DAF) treatment system on hire to DS Smith Paper (formerly St Regis) at its Hollins Mill site in Darwen, Lancashire. The unit helped to ensure compliant discharge with no loss of production at the paper mill, and remained on site for five months. Hollins Mill is the only UK mill that manufactures high quality recycled presentation liners – Optima Silk – as well as mottle, brown testline...
Geotech launches new portable gas analysers for landfill gas and AD biogas
The new Geotech GA5000 portable landfill gas analyser and Biogas 5000 arrive in Jan 2012 with colour-screens and a 3-year warranty. Up-to-the-minute as new-generation analysers, the Geotech 5000-range analysers have mobile phone-style intuitive menus, tactile buttons and are fast, small and light. With a clear, full-colour, daylight-readable screen in several language choices, they are about 25 percent smaller and lighter than the GA2000 and Biogas Check which they supersede. Advances include gr...
Green Energy Parks’ Sustainable Waste Powerstation Receives ROCS Pre-Accreditation Approval from OFGEM
UK gas and electricity market regulator, Ofgem, has advised EnergyPark Peterborough that it has been approved for Renewable Obligation Certificate (ROCs) Pre-Accreditation, a vital step forward for the ground-breaking project. Green Energy Parks’ (GEP) Peterborough scheme received pre-accreditation approval for the renewable energy it will generate under the current ROCs bandings for Gasification and Pyrolysis, at a level of 2 ROCs per megawatt hour of electricity produced. After several mont...
Building a 'green economy'
Earnings, jobs and innovation have been cited as the key benefits of recycling in Europe, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which details the substantial rewards on offer from building a green economy. Revenues from recycling showed fast and sustainable growth from 2004 to 2008, with turnover doubling in the seven main categories of recycling to more than €60 billion (£51 billion). Increasingly expensive materials from Asian countries are likely to be a key fac...
Shanks opens new £7m recycling facility in UK
Shanks Waste Management has started commissioning its new £7 million Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK. At full capacity, the two hectare facility will create 35 new jobs and will take Shanks’ UK recycling capacity to over 1.2 million tonnes. Due to be fully operational in early 2012, the MRF will process over 200,000 tonnes of non-segregated industrial and commercial waste, achieving a 70 percent recovery rate. The facility will also sort co-mingled dry mixe...
Join the South-East European Conference and Exhibition on Waste Management & Recycling
The event aim is to promote the latest technologies and find best practices to successfully manage waste in a cost effective and environmental friendly manner in South-East Europe. In the next few years the countries in the Region will step forward to improve waste management by considerable investments in new technologies. The Exhibition will provide a distinctive opportunity to all national and international exhibitors to network and put on display the most recent equipments and solutions. F...
UK chancellor unveils waste management plans
UK chancellor George Osborne has revealed details of the new National Infrastructure Plan, which will include measures to improve waste management across Britain. Mr Osborne highlighted the importance of becoming a zero waste economy during his Autumn Statement yesterday (November 29th). "For the first time we are identifying over 500 infrastructure projects we want to see built over the next decade and beyond," he commented, before adding that major investment into the waste management sector,...
India to replicate Israel over waste management
India is looking to an Israeli model for waste management inspiration, with 13 delegates from the country taking part in a conference on environmental, sustainable energy and water technologies. Deputy mayor S Harish noted that the group visited Tel Aviv's Arrow Ecology Municipal Solid Waste Plant, which treats up to 300 tonnes of mixed or unsorted solid waste a day, the New Indian Express reports. He went on to suggest that India is now intending to set up five similar plants across Bangalore...
Total Eclipse of the Arch
A Marble Arch replica has been built from litter collected from the streets of Westminster this weekend, eclipsing the original iconic Arch. Renowned artist Miguel Romo, who has 10 years of producing world class art projects involving recycling and reclaimed objects, built the mini arch over the course of Saturday and it will now remain on public view for 10 days. Westminster City Council, with the help of partners the New West End Company and Veolia, commissioned the piece, at no expense to the...
Council delighted with uptake of waste management initiative
A local authority in England has declared its delight, after a new waste management scheme captured the public's imagination. Gloucester City Council has revealed nearly 17,000 people in the city have now signed up to an initiative that will see them pay £36 to have their bins collected, the Citizen reports. The council launched the project - which sees residents pay the fee to have their garden waste collected - last March and it was widely criticised. Before this point the green bins were empt...
Building a Road Bridge from Rubbish? Innovative New Company Prove they have the Bottle!
When sending your plastic bottles for recycling, where do you imagine they’ll end up -perhaps as another bottle or even a plastic bag? One innovative Welsh company have just completed a European-first - by turning 50 tonnes of waste plastic into a record 90-foot Thermoplastic road bridge suitable for heavy goods vehicles. Vertech Limited, a relatively new start-up company have partnered with Dawyck Estates, specialist bridge designer Cass Hayward LLP, Cardiff University’s School of Engineering,...
UK councils' waste management spends revealed
The waste management spends of two UK councils - Worcestershire and Herefordshire - between April 2010 and the same month in 2011 have been revealed. According to statistics obtained by BBC News, the former shelled out £8 million to cover its landfill tax during the period, while the latter parted with £2.4 million. This represents a significant rise for Worcestershire County Council, as it only spent £4.7 million on the levy between 2005 and 2006. Herefordshire Council only paid £2.2 million in...
Finland issued waste management warning
The government in Finland has been threatened with financial penalties if it fails to introduce national laws aimed at regulating waste management. According to the European Commission, the Scandinavian country has not adopted the EU Waste Framework Directive. The original deadline for this was December 2010 and the Commission also stated that Finland is yet to add the Strategic Environment Assessment Directive to its national laws. It has been given two months to rectify the situation or fines...
Profit from sludge - A Novel Approach
CAVIA cavitations technology is now an integral component of DEWACO product portfolio. This transformative concept enables to increase total biogas yield and is easily integrated into new or existing anaerobic digesting processes. Another noticable benefit of CAVIA cavitations technology is the effect it has on dewatering efficiency. With increasing bio-gasification, the residual sludge volume decreases significantly. This unique technology paves the way to unlock the potential for greater profi...
Advanced Plasma Power Secures New Funding
Advanced Plasma Power (APP), a UK based waste-to-energy technology company, has secured significant funding for the next stage of its ambitious development. Leveraged Green Energy (LGE), an existing institutional shareholder in APP, has further demonstrated its support for the company with a number of important moves. LGE has invested an additional £7.6 million at 50p per share by exercising in full the remainder of its option under the original May 2009 transaction. Furthermore, LGE and APP ha...
How to turn waste into new business opportunities?
The Region of South-East Europe still lacks modern facilities and faces challenges to meet the high standards set by the EU in waste management sector. What measures should be taken for a safe tomorrow? How to recover waste streams and turn them into resources? What are the good practices and how to finance the waste projects? Answers of all these questions will be given at ‘Save the Planet’ - the South-East European Conference and Exhibition on Waste Managemet, Recycling and Evnironment, organi...
Coca-Cola introduces innovative PlantBottle packaging to Great Britain
Coca-Cola Great-Britain is today rolling out its innovative PlantBottle™ packaging, taking the next step on its journey seeking to develop a truly sustainable plastic bottle. The move will help decrease the company’s reliance on fossil fuels for its plastic and strengthen its contribution to greater use of renewable and recycled materials. From today in Great Britain, all Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and diet Coke in 500ml bottles will be sold in PlantBottle™ packaging: PET (polyethylene terephthalate)...
Pallmann achieves global success with wood shredding technologies
Heavy investments in the development of the most modern size reduction and process technologies for the wood processing industry are now paying off with numerous attractive international orders. Customers in Russia, Asia, South America and new European Union countries top the list. Pallmann’s order backlog now stretches into the final quarter of this year. Pallmann, a family firm that has been operating in Zweibrücken, Germany, for over 100 years, has been consistently strengthening its internat...
Warm Welcome for Scottish Government`s New Legislative Programme
“Lifetime Recycling Village is proud that Scotland is already leading the way towards a greener future through the 2020 Renewables Routemap, published earlier this summer. ‘Renewing Scotland’ builds upon this foundation to emphasise our country’s commitment to generating renewable energy and achieving landfill reductions, as we strive towards a more sustainable future. “It is essential that we maximise the environmental and economic value of waste, through processing it to produce a fuel to gen...
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 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. Taking centre stage on Stand 3170 in Hall 20 will be NESTRO’s air separator demo unit, which uses cleverly-controlled air-flows to sort light fract...
Free Registration Opens For RWM In Partnership With CIWM
Free registration for RWM in partnership with CIWM, the UK’s biggest recycling and sustainability exhibition, is now live at www.rwmexhibition.com The three day exhibition takes place at Birmingham’s NEC from Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 September. It is the first since the Recycling & Waste Management (RWM) and Futuresource shows merged to create a single leading event for sustainable waste management and recycling. By registering in advance, visitors can make sure they receive the latest informa...
REA`s Biomass Campaign Represents Powerful Voice for the Industry
Chris Williams, Green Energy Parks’ Managing Director, said today: “The Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) ‘Back Biomass’ campaign, launched this week, provides a much-needed forum to represent the UK’s biomass industry and deliver a coherent message to the top policy-makers about biomass’s unique potential in the transition to a low carbon economy. At Green Energy Parks, we believe strongly in finding effective solutions to boost energy security, at the same time as helping to cut emissions...
Now Is The Time To `Back Biomass`
Lifetime Recycling Village (UK) are delighted to see the launch of the Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) ‘Back Biomass’ campaign this week. At a time when the renewables industry desperately needs clarity about the future of Government incentives, it is vital that we send a clear message to policy-makers about the flexibility and affordability of biomass for producing green electricity. Significant progress has already been made to integrate biomass electricity into the UK energy mix: at the...
New Technology Expands Ability to Recycle Precious Metals
Precious metals like platinum and rhodium are very valuable, and also very rare. That makes it increasingly important to recycle these precious metals from a wide variety of industrial uses. For example, various catalytic processes in the chemical industry generate large amounts of fluid residue containing low concentrations of precious metal catalysts. The new adsorption process (scavenger technology) being offered in cooperation with the PhosphonicS company in the UK will allow Heraeus (German...
Metso Wins another Order for Biomass Fuelled CHP Plant to Germany
Metso will supply Heizkraftwerk Zwickau Süd GmbH & Co. KG with a modularised biomass power plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the municipality of Zwickau in Germany. The CHP plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power. The delivery encompasses the complete turn-key solution including not only the entire plant but also all on-site installations and training. The value of the order is about EUR 20 million and the order is included in Energy and Environme...
New Shredder, a Multi-Talented All-Rounder
Originally developed for reprocessing tyres, Pallmann’s (Netherlands) “Tiger” single-shaft shredder is increasingly turning out to be a universal machine for numerous applications. The lifetimes of the cutting tools, as well as the output, exceed all original expectations. The Tiger-type single-shaft shredder was originally developed to separate the rubber in tyres from the steel reinforcement. Despite the high demands placed on them, the grinding elements last much longer than expected....
PDM to unveil new AD plant at RWM 2011
PDM, a prominent UK food waste recycler, will unveil its new anaerobic digestion plant at this year’s RWM exhibition (Birmingham NEC, 13 – 15 September 2011). Due to be operational in September 2011, the plant which will operate under the ReFood brand will provide capacity to recycle 45,000 tonnes of food waste into renewable energy. Also at the show, PDM’s Suzanne McDermott will be delivering a seminar session on Thursday 15 September in the Technology and Innovation Theatre. Entitled ‘Finding...
Advanced Plasma Power and Group Machiels Announce Landmark Waste Management Joint Venture
Advanced Plasma Power (APP), the UK-based waste-to-energy company and Group Machiels, the global waste management firm, announces a major joint venture in order to undertake the first enhanced landfill mining project in the world - involving an investment of hundreds of millions of euros. Process and product development to make efficient use of all phases of a product’s life cycle, thereby closing the materials loop, are indispensable tools to overcome depletion of raw materials, shortage of ene...
Reconomy Portal Helps Reduce Waste Handling Costs and Achieve Reductions in Landfill
Reconomy, the leading national outsourced waste services provider introduces Reconomy Portal, a 24/7 system providing users in any industry where waste streams are generated and need to be accounted for, with real-time control of their waste handling and disposal operations - waste cost, tonnage, segregation and diversion from landfill. Reconomy Portal is a real-time monitoring and management system for effective control of waste across all sectors of industry and commerce and makes an important...
Macho Monster Series 70000 - the Meanest Green Monster
JWC Environmental (USA) introduces its largest grinder ever - the Macho Monster model 70000. This massive two-shafted grinder features an extra-large robust cutting chamber designed specifically for processing high-volume solids in large scale wastewater screenings grinding, various heavy-duty industrial dry grinding applications, food waste receiving, petrochemical and other various large scale, wet or dry solids reduction applications. Primarily designed for use in automatic hopper-fed configu...
Process to Help Recyclers Reduce Labor Costs and Increase Profits by Separating #1 Shred and Copper
The new Eriez CleanStream™ Process combines the brute-power of Eriez’ P-Rex® Drum and new Shred1™ Separator to immediately increase recyclers’ profitability. The P-Rex Drum improves ferrous recovery by one to two percent while the Shred1 Separator produces a low copper content #1 Shred (MSA defines #1 Shred as <.17%), a premium deliverable to the steel industry. In the CleanStream Process, materials first pass through Eriez’ innovative Drum Magnet, or P-Rex, to recover all potential ferrous mat...
Eco Expo Asia to Respond to China’s New Economic Plan
Eco Expo Asia 2011, Hong Kong’s major international trading platform for environmental business, will introduce four new zones this year to help businesses find new opportunities under the 12th Five-Year Plan adopted by the Chinese mainland. Specialised areas for E-waste Management, Green Financing, New Materials and Testing, Inspection and Certification will debut at the 26-29 October expo organised under the theme "Green Tech for a Low-Carbon Economy." The event will also feature the w...
Design Approach Helps Gain Planning Permission for a Efw Facility In Cornwall
A distinctive, high quality design developed by architect David Butterworth has helped secure a planning green light for SITA’s Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre (CERC). Although planners put forward a recommendation for approval, Cornwall Council initially turned down plans for the 240,000 tonne scheme. This was overturned on appeal by the Secretary of State, whose report recognised that the design was of a distinctive high quality. David incorporated a series of curved roofs into the scheme to r...
Excellent Inventor Spirit at GEA Westfalia Separator Group
At the “Best Innovators 2010/11” awards on 10th June at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, GEA Group was honored as the mechanical engineering company with the most successful and sustainable innovation management in Germany. But there was still more to come. GEA Westfalia Separator Group was awarded the quality seal "Top 100" by Lothar Späth in the Baltic spa Warnemünde yesterday evening. Only creative companies with vision and an innovative spirit have been able...
National Policy Statement an “Incentive” for Sustainable Development
Green Energy Parks (GEP), whose zero-landfill EnergyPark Peterborough (UK) gained planning approval from the Government in October 2009, has welcomed the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Infrastructure. The document sets out the criteria by which applications to the Infrastructure Planning Commission should be considered. The GEP team commended the added weight given to applications for biomass projects that are able to minimise...
Contract Signed for New Energy From Waste Plant in Teesside, UK
SITA UK and Hitachi Zosen Inova (Switzerland) recently signed an EPC turnkey contract for a new two line energy-from-waste facility adjacent to an existing facility in Teesside. The plant is being developed for the South Tyne and Wear Waste Management Partnership as part of a Private Finance Initiative deal. The project is the most recent of numerous collaborations between SITA UK, its sister companies, and the Zurich based company. In 2008 SITA selected the Swiss technology provider - th...
Four Major Advances for d2w Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic
Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc is delighted to announce today four major industry developments. Symphony’s CEO, Michael Laurier commented "Public pressure to ban plastic is driven by the fact that plastic litter can last for hundreds of years in the environment. It is now clear that there is no need to ban plastic - just use d2w oxo-biodegradable technology to control the life of the plastic at little or no extra cost. It can still be re-used and recycled during its service-life, and c...
Biogas at IFAT ENTSORGA 2012: Setting the Sights on Export Markets
Biogas is gaining ground around the world and sales of biogas technology and services are increasing. IFAT ENTSORGA 2012, the World´s Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management, taking place from 7 to 11 May 2012, offers exhibitors and visitors from all over the world a platform at which they can experience all the latest developments in biogas live and explore new business contacts. In 2010 around 1,000 new biogas plants were constructed in Germany, which...
Biomass an Essential Part of Scotland’s Green Energy Mix
Energy generated from biomass has a key role to play in helping Scotland to achieve its 100% renewable target by 2020, members of the Lifetime Recycling Village (LRV) team have stated today. The Lifetime Recycling Village team welcomed comments made this week by Mark Hanafin, Director of Centrica Energy, in the House of Commons, which emphasised the benefits of energy from biomass in terms of its reliability. Mr Hanafin stressed that biomass was an important renewable energy source as i...
European PVC Industry Launches Ambitious New Ten Year Sustainability Commitment and Calls for More Support for Recycling In Europe
The European PVC industry today announced an ambitious new set of targets for sustainable development to 2020 and called for the support of policy makers in stimulating recycling in Europe. The VinylPlus programme is built around five commitments aimed at: achieving a quantum leap in recycling rates of PVC and the development of innovative recycling technologies; addressing concerns about organochlorine emissions; ensuring the sustainable use of additives; enhancing energy efficiency an...
Biogas Plant for META-BIO Energies
During 2011, Xergi’s French subsidiary, Xergi SAS, will supply a biogas plant to the French bio-energy company META-BIO Energies in the town of Bel-Air de Combrée in western France. French Caisse des Dépôts participates in the project with an equity of up to 23 per cent of the share capital together with Société Groupe Chazé Environnement. The biogas plant will be built to process a wide range of different biomasses, which is the primary reason why META-BIO energies chose Xergi as its supplier....
Anaerobic Digestion Experts Provide Masterclass in Renewables in North East
Experts on anaerobic digestion (AD), a process which breaks waste into renewable energy and valuable fertiliser, gathered in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, this week to provide interested north east farmers, businesses and community groups with a masterclass on AD. The Soil Association event included speakers from Zero Waste Scotland, the Energy Saving Trust, Earthcare and BiogenGreenfinch. As well as providing an overview of AD and how it works, other topics covered included, feedstocks, maximising th...
Shanks joint venture 3SE named Preferred Bidder for £750m PFI Contract
Shanks Group Plc (UK), an independent waste management business, is pleased to announce that its majority owned joint venture, 3SE, has been named Preferred Bidder (subject to agreement) for the UK Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Waste Partnership (‘BDR’), a 25-year PFI residual waste management contract with a value in excess of £750 million. Under the BDR contract, Shanks will be responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction (‘EPC’) of the proposed waste management fa...