Due to extreme increases in energy prices, artificial fertiliser production has become economically unviable. Currently all mineral fertilizer production in the UK is suspended. CF Fertilisers UK announced that they will temporarily halt ammonia production at Billingham, instead importing ammonia…
The agreement reached last 20th of November between negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council has been validated by the Permanent Ambassadors to the European Union, the COREPER, on the basis of the European Commission 2016 proposal. With this…
The long-awaited European Union Long Term Strategy for a climate neutral economy has been published today. This document is meant to set the foundations for a deep decarbonisation of the EU aiming to achieve net-zero emissions in 2050 in line…
ADBA Chief Executive Charlotte Morton responds to the presentation to Parliament of the government's Agriculture Bill.
The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry has welcomed a target from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for all of England’s soils to be “managed sustainably” by 2030, calling it “an important step in the right direction” towards restoring the UK’s soils.
Eight months after the opening of their fourth anaerobic digestion (AD) plant facility in Bridgend, Agrivert has signed a 15-year contract with Bridgend and Swansea to recycle approximately 18,000 tonnes of food waste collected from their residents each year. The…
ADBA has described the first sales of biofertiliser produced from AD as ‘a game-changing moment in the restoration of the UK’s soils’. Farming family Steve and Sarah Suggitt of Suggitt Farm Services in Norfolk are using digestate, a liquid byproduct…
Aardvark Certification Limited (ACL) have been appointed as a certification body to both the Compost Certification Scheme and the Biofertiliser Certification Scheme. ACL’s appointment has been confirmed by the scheme owners, Renewable Energy Assurance Limited (REAL), following a lengthy review…
A mountain of turkey and Christmas pudding weighing 15,000 tonnes was transformed into green energy over the holiday season by leading food-waste recyclers Biogen. The food waste, which would otherwise have gone to landfill or incineration, was recycled across the…
Children and teachers from Anglesey Primary School were thrilled to tour Warwickshire’s newest green energy plant to see electricity being generated from the region’s leftovers. The visit to Biogen’s Merevale food waste recycling plant was organised as part of the…