With news on: M&S Christmas card recycling scheme; LIFE project funds industrial conveyor belt from recycled plastic; Gilder Environmental awarded contract for Tamar AD plant, and; Envac to install vacuum waste collection system in Norway.
Gilder Environmental awarded Tamar digestate contract
Gilder Environmental has been awarded a contract to manage digestate from Tamar Energy’s Hoddesdon anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Hertfordshire.
Tamar’s AD facility in Hoddesdon Hertfordshire
The contract will see Gilder Environmental, a liquid waste treatment specialist manage the collection, transportation and onward use of up to 60,000 tonnes digestate each year from Tamar’s 3MW food waste AD plant.
Tamar Energy and Gilder Environmental will also work together to promote the use of the digestate biofertiliser in agriculture, as a natural low cost alternative to artificial fertilisers.
Gilder Environmental business development manager, Mark Fowles said: “We’re delighted to be working with Tamar and are looking forward to developing an efficient and longstanding operation. Supplying a year-round service to ensure that operations are not impacted is important to Tamar, and we’ll ensure farmers are supplied with agreed volumes to support their fertiliser planning.”
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Celebrities back M&S Christmas card recycling scheme
Special card collection bins will be in M&S stores throughout January 2017
Celebrities are calling on the public to recycle their cards this Christmas to help plant thousands of trees across the UK as part of a Marks & Spencer campaign.
Dermot O’Leary, Jo Brand, Julia Bradbury, Hugh Dennis and Cerys Matthews have backed the scheme, which for every 1,000 cards taken to M&S stores for recycling throughout January 2017, will see a new tree planted by the Woodland Trust in the UK.
Over the last 19 years, over half a billion cards have been collected and 245,000 trees have been planted by the Woodland Trust through the M&S Card Recycling scheme, the retailer claims.
Mike Barry, M&S’s Plan A director said: “This year at M&S we’ve been working hard to encourage our customers to get involved and Spark Something Good – from fundraising, to volunteering, to recycling. Through our partnership with the Woodland Trust the small action of dropping your cards into store after Christmas can help make a big difference in planting trees across the UK”.
Special card collection bins will be in M&S stores from 2-31 January 2017.
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Envac to install vacuum waste system in Norway
Underground waste management specialist Envac has won a contract to install an automated vacuum waste collection system in Bergen, Norway, in a deal worth €20m.
The waste inlets currently in place since phase 1 of the system became operational
The underground pipe system, which will be 7,500 metres long, will feed into two waste collection stations and use vacuum technology to transport waste at up to 70km/h from on-street waste inlets.
The waste collection system will move residential and commercial waste from sites across the city, and will transport up to 30 tonnes of waste each day using airflow. According to Envar, the system will be “the world’s largest.”
Joakim Karlsson, chief executive at Envac, added: “We’re delighted to have won the contract to deliver the world’s largest system, proud to play a role in enhancing the City of Bergen and excited about the future of waste collection in modern urban environments.”
Work on project has already begun, with some waste inlets already operational. The development is expected to take within 10 years to complete.
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LIFE project develops conveyor belt with recycled plastic
The EU-funded LIFE project has completed work to develop a prototype industrial conveyor belt, which includes structural components made from recycled plastic.
The conveyor belt uses recycled plastic components instead of metal
The modular conveyor belt uses recycled plastic components to replace parts formerly made of aluminium and iron. It also replaces components previously made from virgin PVC, synthetic rubber or virgin plastic with recycled plastic. Hard plastics used in the production process have included HDPE, PVC, PP and PET.
The project is a product of collaboration between a number of Italian companies: Plastic Metal, which produces recycled plastic components using thermoplastic injection moulding machines; F.lli Virginio, which designs and assembles the conveyor belt and Vivi which has carried out laboratory analysis of materials.
The ‘LIFE Replace Belt’ project aimed to explore new market opportunities for solid plastic waste and also to reduce raw material consumption in new products.
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