WRAP's annual gate fee survey closes this week - if you're a food waste operator and haven't yet had your say, please do participate here. Recording higher quality information about the current market is vital to help government make better…
Later this year the European Commission (EC) will review its sustainability policy and update the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC), with implications for policies to support biomethane in transport. This is part of the European Union’s general decarbonisation strategy. For the…
Following the announcement of the 2016-21 RHI budget in the Spending Review, work within DECC is continuing on the two packages which will dictate the short and longer-term future of the scheme. These are first some immediate regulatory changes to…
In early 2015, the Environment Agency (EA) undertook a consultation on proposed changes to several Standard Rules permits, including those that cover landspreading and digestate storage (SR2010 No 4, 5 and 6). In September, the EA published a summary of…
The Environment Agency (EA) has published an updated Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) on the regulation of trial waste recovery activities. The position statement (RPS 182) can be accessed here. The RPS provides useful clarification of the EA’s approach to regulating…
Defra is currently inviting views on the costs and benefits arising from the reform of guidance provided by Defra and its agencies, which include the Environment Agency (EA) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA). The ‘reform’ being referred…
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…
Green gas will be cooking your giblets this Christmas and for many festive seasons to come. Thanks to rapid growth this year, with a quadrupling of biomethane-to-grid plant numbers from 10 to 40, more households are cooking with home-grown green…
Defra's latest statistics on land used for bioenergy were published earlier in December, and are available to download here. It contains a number of useful statistics, including the relative increases in different feedstocks from 2012-2013 (p 25): This shows that…
Last week I represented ADBA at a workshop held by the DfT on future changes to renewable transport support, as previewed in my blog here. …