Four composting facilities from around Ireland have been accredited under the country’s first ever Compost Quality Assurance Scheme CQAS 441 and compost quality mark, which encompasses the Irish Standard for compost quality (I.S. 441). Each of the facilities certified creates quality compost from garden and/or food waste collected in Ireland. The CQAS 441Compost Quality Assurance … Read more
Food and agribusiness companies are discovering innovative ways to create value from the waste that they produce, shifting the perception of ‘waste as a cost’ to ‘waste as a revenue’, according to a Rabobank report, Don’t Waste a Drop: Maximising the Value of F&A Waste Streams. This change has been enabled by the development of … Read more
Tullibardine Distillery in Scotland is to become the first whisky distillery in the world to have its by-products converted into advanced biofuel, capable of powering vehicles fuelled by petrol or diesel. The Perthshire-based independent malt whisky producer has signed a memorandum of understanding with Celtic Renewables, an Edinburgh-based company which has developed the technology to … Read more
A new suite of guidance on energy from waste (EfW) has been launched by WRAP in the UK. The guidance provides practical information for businesses looking at developing smaller-scale EfW facilities as a waste treatment option, where waste prevention, re-use or recycling of residual waste isn’t possible. The full suite of guidance brings together a … Read more
The world’s first robotic recycling system, ZenRobotics Recycler, has been purchased by The Netherlands-based Baetsen Recycling. In total, the deal is valued at more than Eur1 million. The system will be installed starting in February 2013 at Baetsen’s recycling plant in Son. The ZenRobotics Recycler system reclaims valuable raw materials from construction and demolition (CND) … Read more
Lightsource Renewable Energy, the UK’s leading utility scale solar plant developer, owner and asset operator, has, together with Solarcentury, the UK’s most experienced solar photovoltaic (PV) installer, completed a 5MW utility scale solar plant close to the village of Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire. The solar plant will provide enough ‘green’ electricity during daylight hours to power … Read more
Tourists landing at Dublin Airport are being greeted by littered approach roads, according to the latest nationwide survey by Irish Business Against Litter. The study, despite showing continuing improvement in the cleanliness of our cities and towns, revealed the environs of our main airport to be a litter blackspot, as was Dublin‘s North Inner City. … Read more
The EPA’s Stop Food Waste Programme is encouraging all parents to do their homework when getting their children ready for back to school. They are calling on parents to start the school year with a clean slate and rethink how to plan and prepare their children’s lunches. The back to school period represents a very … Read more
University of Sheffield researchers have shown, for the first time, that a method of storing nuclear waste normally used only for High Level Waste (HLW), could provide a safer, more efficient, and potentially cheaper, solution for the storage and ultimate disposal of Intermediate Level Waste (ILW). ILW makes up more than three quarters of the … Read more
Following the recent appointment of David Carson of Deloitte as Receiver to the business of Greenstar, the waste management company has confirmed that it will continues to trade as normal, servicing its 80,000 residential and 15,000 business customers throughout Ireland. According to Greenstar, all its operations are continuing as normal without interruption. There is no … Read more