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Agrivert have appointed Kirk Environmental to provide five 4,500m3 concrete digestion tanks for Oxfordshire County Council - at what will be the one of UK’s first large-scale AD facilities to be purpose-built for a local authority.
The new 30,000-tonne food waste treatment centre at Cassington (just north of Oxford), is the inaugural stage of the council's plans to generate electricity for 5,000 homes.
Working in close partnership with Agrivert and Biogas-Weser-Ems, Kirk Environmental hav... [more]
With more than 22,000 students, Kingston University is the largest provider of higher education in South West London. Reducing carbon emissions and increasing the amount of waste it recycles has earned Kingston University a prestigious environmental accolade. Kingston University is the first academic institution to reach the third phase of the Institute’s Acorn BS8555 standard, a government-endorsed scheme similar to the Kitemark system.
Removing personal wastepaper bins to encourage staff t... [more]
A new report from the London Assembly reveals that London’s rubbish could be used to generate electricity for up to two million homes and heat for up to 625,000 homes. The capital produces about 22 million tonnes of waste per year, including enough waste thrown out by Londoners to fill Canary Wharf tower every eight days. Most of this waste is taken outside of London and buried in landfill sites, but this is no longer sustainable.
The Assembly Environment Committee report, ‘Where there’s mu... [more]
Under the direction of the Japanese government, Aerosol Industry Association and Japan Waste Management Association held a contest from June 2006 to March 2008 to find the most efficient way to recycle aerosol cans, an ongoing concern for community officials there. Aerosolv, a system that efficiently punctures, depressurizes and drains aerosol cans containing paint, solvents and hydrocarbons, beat out other solutions from around the world.
Before, local governments in Japan used different dis... [more]
Americans are throwing away less and recycling more. According to a nationwide survey conducted by Mode Products, 77 percent of American households recycle, and 50 percent are recycling more than they did two years ago. And, when looking to 2009 and beyond, 69 percent of households are likely to recycle more.
In addition, the most recent study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported an overall increase in recycling of 20 percent since 2000. However, while America current... [more]
Dairy UK has launched a benchmarking initiative that should help to make the dairy sector even greener. Using a proprietary ‘benchmarking tool’, Dairy UK members will be able to record their performance on key environmental indicators and compare it with their peers. Information on energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, packaging and waste will all be captured.
As well as helping individual processing sites to improve, the tool will allow Dairy UK to measure the sector’s progress towards targe... [more]
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