The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has announced that registration for the next round of the Contracts for Difference scheme is now open and accepting bids. The third round is expected to open by May 2019. Projects will…
Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that the government wants "to maximise the amount of waste that is sent to recycling rather than to incineration and landfill" and confirmed that ministers are keeping the option of a tax on incineration open for consideration.
The EU institutions have found an agreement on new EU rules on fertilisers proposed by the Commission in 2016 as a key deliverable of the Circular Economy Package. Negotiators from the European Parliament, Council and Commission have reached a preliminary…
From this month to June the government is asking about how to account social value in the procurement processes carried out by central government. The consultation, which can be consulted here, set RAF Marham supply of green energy from nearby…
Last January concluded the government consultation on the its 25 year environmental plan’s indicators. The draft plan itself was presented one year before and aims to set the framework for environmental improvement in the long term in England but also…
Given the publication of the Government's consultations into implementing the Resources & Waste Strategy, ADBA are undertaking to demonstrate how local authorities can implement seperate food waste collections, and send that inedible food waste to anaerobic digestion. We are pleased to…
Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA), discusses how ADBA will celebrate its tenth anniversary with the appointment of a new Chairperson and what the organics recycling industry can look forward to in the coming decade.
See a note I've written for ADBA members on the potential for composting separated fibre from digested food waste here. This is something that government should be conducting a study on. Any comments would be appreciated - ollie.more@adbioresources.org
As members may have heard Charlotte announce at the ADBA National Conference 2018 back in December, ADBA is in the process of recruiting a Chairperson to lead the association into its second decade and help deliver our vision of a world-leading UK AD industry.
In Defra's consultation on consistency, garden collection is closely linked to food waste collection as both are organic waste and currently collected mixed by 12% of local authorities in England. If both are organic, why are not collected together? There…