anaerobic digestion
Once best known for a certain type of fossil fuel, Newcastle is now moving in a new — if equally “earthy” — direction: energy from farm waste. Cockle Park Farm, a 262-hectare farm owned by Newcastle University, is in the process of developing a £1.85-million, state-of-the-art anaerobic digester that will convert
anaerobic digestion
London Mayor Boris Johnson, today launched a major initiative to cut both landfill rates and carbon emissions by converting London’s food waste into eco-fuel. Currently, London produces nearly three million tonnes of organic waste, mainly from food. Nearly two-thirds of this waste is burnt in incinerators or buried in
anaerobic digestion
Five UK projects will receive government grants to create energy from food waste and other organic waste, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today. The grants are being awarded under the £10 million Defra Anaerobic Digestion Demonstration Programme, and form part of wider plans to tackle food waste and packaging this
anaerobic digestion
An EU programme aims to reduce the problem of agricultural waste by developing a way to convert it into energy via anaerobic digestion. The AGROBIOGAS (“An integrated approach for biogas production with agricultural waste”) project, backed by €2.1 million in EU funding, set its sights on developing anaerobic digestion
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Waste management firm Biffa has appointed Ros Roca Envirotec, part of the Ros Roca Environment Group, as the technology provider for its new 80,000 tonne-per-year anaerobic digestion facility to be built at Cannock, Staffordshire. The facility will utilise waste food to generate 4 megawatts of electricity and create a
