Households in Bath and North East Somerset, UK will soon benefit from New Earth Solutions' waste treatment processes following the award of a long-term food waste treatment contract.
Washington State University Tri-Cities has received a donation from Easterday Ranches and Easterday Farms to work on ways to turn local agricultural waste into bioenergy.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is starting up a demonstration project to test a new method of speeding up reclamation of toxic waste ponds at oil sands operations.
Viridor, the Recycling, renewable energy and waste management specialist has announced that it intends to submit a planning application for a leachate treatment plant at its Horton, UK landfill site.
New Earth Solutions has announced the opening of two new biological treatment facilities in the UK
A UK Supermarket is making carbon savings equivalent to taking a thousand cars off the road by stopping its food waste from going to landfill. The scheme is producing enough electricity to power around 200 homes.
From 1 July businesses in Ireland producing large quantities of food waste have been subject to new collection rules.
A consumer body in the UK has warned that most teabags being sold in Britain today are only 70-80% biodegradable.
New research by Frost & Sullivan shows that the biological waste to energy plant market in Europe – which is already the world’s largest – should reach US$3.6 billion in 2016 if all goes well.
Over 1500 delegates from 72 countries attended the 18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition which took place at in Lyon, France, from 3 May to 7 May 2010.
