Amid all of the uncertainty around renewable financial incentives, there is one chink of light on AD policy: food waste collections. In mid-July, Charlotte was part of an industry delegation which met new resources minister Rory Stewart MP in Defra.…
This week I joined colleagues from across the recycling industry to meet new Defra minister Rory Stewart MP, who is responsible for waste and recycling policy. I started the first discussion on improving recycling rates by informing the minister that…
Waste isn’t a problem, it’s a resource – and so the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package has presented the UK’s green economy with a unique opportunity to force the circular agenda onto the statute book of a government which is…
WRAP's annual survey of waste and recycling gate fees was released earlier this week, and can be accessed here. The survey shows an AD gate fee of £40/t in 2014-15, which is little changed from previous years. However, following our…
Aqua Enviro, an environmental consultancy specialising in the treatment of water, wastewater and organic waste, is pleased to announce that Dr David Tompkins has joined the company as Organics Technical Manager. David, who joined the consultancy at the beginning of…
As you are no doubt aware finding funding for an AD project can be quite complicated - in an attempt to make it slightly easier below are a list of possible WRAP loans/grants that could be of some use. If…
The latest edition of WRAP's DC-Agri project bulletin is now available here. This bulletin quantifies a number of the benefits of compost use, and also links to a short video for farmers and agronomists on how to use digestate as a…
Accurate information about gate fees is vital to AD policy development. At present the annual WRAP gate fees report is the best public source of information available, but it has previously been based on a very limited set of sources,…
DECC has released Feed-in Tariff (FIT) deployment data for November 2014 which highlights that many developers made pre-accreditation applications in September in order to avoid the full force of Feed-in Tariff cuts, which are brought about by the degression policy. …
The latest official data for the calendar year 2013 shows that the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry has benefited from strong growth, with feedstock use and operational capacity up by over 50% and full-time employment in AD up by 36%. While…
