BRITAIN’S ANAEROBIC digestion capacity is growing and yet many foodservice companies are still sending food waste to landfill. Footprint looks at the gaps in the UK system. There are now 106 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK, not counting those used in [...]
THERE ARE now over 100 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK, outside those used by the water industry. The official figures, gathered by bioeconomy consultants NNFCC and WRAP, reveal that the number of AD plants in the UK has nearly doubled since September 2011, when [...]
THE HOSPITALITY sector could have its own dedicated anaerobic digestion (AD) plant to take food waste. It’s just one of a number of options being considered as part of a sector-wide analysis of food waste. The Hospitality Carbon Reduction Forum, which has 12,000 [...]
CALLS FOR a ban on sending food waste to landfill will fall on deaf ears, according to reports. At the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) annual exhibition in Birmingham yesterday, there were calls to ban food waste from landfill to help stimulate anaerobic digestion (AD). AD currently [...]
A NEW VOLUNTARY agreement for the foodservice sector has been published. Businesses signing up to the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement will be required to cut their waste and divert more of whats left to recycling, composting and anaerobic digestion (AD) than landfill. The agreement [...]
THE LONG-AWAITED voluntary agreement on waste for the hospitality sector looking more likely to be end of June with many more hurdles to overcome. A progress report of the Governments waste review 2011 stated that development of the so-called Hospitality and Food Service Agreement [...]
INVESTORS INCLUDING The Duchy of Cornwall, Sainsburys and Islamic investment firm Fajr Capital have stumped up £65m to back a network of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. The money will be used to form a game-changing start-up company, Tamar Energy, which will focus on producing energy from organic waste [...]
