MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: South Africa’s first independent landfill gas generation scheme powers up
South Africa's first independent landfill gas-to-power project has begun generation in Johannesburg - providing 3MW of renewable electricity, enough to supply more than 5,500 homes. Project developer ENERGY Systems has started operation at Robinson Deep landfill site in Johannesburg. This…
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Geotech customer feedback continues to improve user experience
Geotech is due to roll out its latest firmware upgrades to its 5000 platform of portable gas analysers for landfill and biogas monitoring. Based on customer feedback and continuous improvement, Geotech is eager to share the benefits that the latest…
ADBA outlines wish list ahead of Budget Statement
With this year's feed in tariff cap for anaerobic digestion almost full already, it's time for the Chancellor to commit more resources to delivering viable baseload capacity through AD to secure our electricity supplies. In addition, industry urges the Chancellor to…
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: dewatering and compacting of reject from food waste plant
Huber UK, as part of their ongoing development programme to solve their customer’s requirements, have been developing and testing well proven equipment in the applications arising on Anaerobic Digestion plants. One area looked at has been to reduce the amount…
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Suite of biogas events kick off business in 2016 for Geotech
Geotech is inviting colleagues, consultants and technicians with the Landfill and Biogas industry to their UK Biogas Seminar next week. Held on Thursday 28 January 2016 at their headquarters in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the event is part of a suite…
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: 15,000 tonnes of turkey and Christmas pudding recycled for green energy
A staggering 15,000 tonnes of festive food, the same weight as 45 Boeing 747’s, was transformed into renewable energy by food waste recycling leaders Biogen over the holiday season. The mountain of food waste, which would otherwise have gone to…
Parliament favours anaerobic digestion for food waste disposal
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 vital to UK carbon abatement
In the wake of a “historic” agreement reached at the Paris Climate Change conference, with a commitment to keep global temperatures well below 20C, the UK government’s revised green gas strategy could place anaerobic digestion (AD) at the heart of…
New EU Circular Economy Package encourages separate food waste collections
Last week (Dec. 2), the revised EU Circular Economy Package (CEP): Closing the loop – an EU action plan for the Circular Economy was launched by Vice-President Frans Timmermans of the European Commission. This document announced legislation for the…