London’s burning: Report calls for slowdown on capital’s incineration dependence
The London Assembly Environment Committee published a report, Waste: Energy from Waste on 15 February, which examines how the city could maximise the benefits...
New apprenticeship key to delivery of major infrastructure projects, says ICE
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has advised that the introduction of a civil engineering apprenticeship is necessary to ensure the delivery of key...
Guide warns incinerator GHG emissions often worse than predicted
The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) launched a good practice guide in July, intended to help with assessing the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts...
Landfilling, rather than incineration, might be best for low grade waste plastics, says recycling...
With levels of waste plastics rising in the UK as a result of China's National Sword scrap import policies, the debate is picking up...
Mapping a possible future direction for domestic waste
Nik Spencer, founder of HERU, the firm behind "the world's first energy-from-waste hybrid boiler" shares his vision for the technology
When it comes to waste,...
‘Stop allowing new toxic waste incinerators in London’ Mayor tells ministers
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan called - in late May - for the government to stop permitting the building of 'archaic' polluting waste incinerators as he outined his opposition to a proposed incinerator in Bexley, which is set to raise NOx pollution levels. One of the firms mentioned by the mayor, Cory Riverside Energy, has responded with an account of the situation as they see it, comments which are also included below .
Firm cites significant carbon reductions for using energy recovery facilities to treat clinical waste
Resource management firm Veolia is highlighting how significant emissions reductions can be achieved by using energy recovery facilities, ERF, to dispose of the more...
Planning permission granted for Sunderland plastics pyrolysis plant
Sunderland City Council has given the go-ahead for a new plant at the Port of Sunderland, creating over 100 permanent jobs and processing plastic...
EfW trade groups offer reaction to first draft waste incineration BREFs
A joint press release from three important trade organisations in the energy-from-waste sector offers a reaction to the first draft (D1) of the reference...
Reimagining residual waste: EfW key players publish manifesto
A carbon capture and storage scheme at one of Cory's Thameside facilities has the potential to become Europe's largest single-site EfW decarbonisation project.
Key energy-from-waste...
Comment: Incineration not the reason for recycling stagnation
With energy-from-waste (EfW) continuing to dominate the headlines, Ruben Maistry, Sales Manager at recycling equipment supplier Stadler Engineering, discusses why incineration can’t be held...
Iterative design: From EIA to EfW
Richard Kevan of Wardell Armstrong reviews the role of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) with reference to planning for a new Energy-from-Waste (EfW) scheme...
New process supports APC residue disposal
A growth in the use of waste to energy plants has made the treatment of the resultant waste a growing priority. Cleansing Services Group...
Proprietary push floor technology selected for UK waste-to-energy gasification plant
Bouygues Energies & Services, the company responsible for the engineering and construction of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy gasification plant currently underway at Hoddesdon in...
Firm converts scrap vehicle waste into renewable energy
A seemingly ground-breaking solution allows hard-to-recycle automotive shredder residue (ASR) to be used to deliver renewable energy and reduce waste-to-landfill.
End-of-life vehicles processor Recycling Lives...
New ‘Green’ waste site applications down 20% in a year as local authority spending...
The number of planning applications to build new environmentally-friendly waste management sites has dropped by 20% in a year, to 189 in 2015/16 from...
New look revealed after show success
THE organisers of the Sustainabilitylive! exhibition and conference have declared this year’s event “a resounding success”.
Energy, water, land and sustainable business exhibitions were all...
Resource management firm to trial electric Refuse Collection Vehicles
"World first" project will recharge vehicles using green energy derived from waste they collect
Resource management company Veolia is to trial innovative electric Refuse...
Smarter options for waste plastic
On the current plastic-waste conundrum facing the UK, one avenue of hope is the development of novel gasification and EfW techniques
Isle of Portland to host UK’s first carbon neutral EfW facility
The directors of Powerfuel Portland - a firm aiming to deliver a proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Portland Port on the Isle of...
