bottom ash News
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Yorkshire planning approval for bottom ash recycler
Yorkshire recycling park Beeley Woodhas gained planning permission for a bottom ash recycling facility to be built onsite. A facility, with the capacity to process about 52,000 tonnes of bottom ash into marketable ferrous and non-ferrous metals as well as aggregates for use in the construction industry, will be built by Ballast Phoenix. Supply contracts for the facility are still being ...
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Government decides not to increase incinerator bottom ash tax
The Treasury is dropping its proposals to increase the rate of landfill tax paid on incinerator bottom ash. Last year (April 2009), the Treasury launched a consultation entitled Modernising Landfill Tax Legislation and proposed to tax incinerator bottom ash at the higher rate for active waste, which is currently £48 per tonne, as opposed to the lower rate for inactive waste which is currently ...
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Others may see waste … we see fuel!
Over recent times there has been a growing debate about the vast amounts of waste that modern living generates. The main arguments surround firstly the sheer volume of today’s waste accumulation; and secondly the difficulties, cost and the environmental impact involved in the disposal of it. As one of the world’s leading waste incineration specialists we can see a simple solution ...
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Consultation on increasing the recycling of coal power station ash
A consultation has been launched by the Waste Protocols Project, a joint Environment Agency and WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) initiative, to get views on a Quality Protocol for the re-use of ashes from power generation. The protocol aims to increase their use in the construction industry and divert millions of tonnes of waste from landfill. Funded by Defra, the draft Quality ...
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Keppel secures S$30 million contract for first waste-to-energy plant in Finland
SINGAPORE, 12 July 2006 - Keppel Seghers, the environmental technology division of Keppel Integrated Engineering (KIE), has secured a S$30 million (€15 million) contract to provide technologies and services for the first waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Finland. Awarded by Kotkan Energia which supplies power to the city of Kotka, the WTE plant will be able to turn 300 tonnes of municipal ...
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Energy-from-Waste drive ‘could compromise recycling targets’
Senior consultants from Eunomia have called on Defra to introduce policy measures that would “damp down” the EfW sector to bolster recycling rates. Steve Almond, sales engineer with Tomra Sorting Recycling, said: “Our industry’s current fixation on EfW as the solution for our waste really worries me,” he said. “The opening of this new [Trident Park] plant ...
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Axion: what’s best for low grade plastics?
With levels of waste plastics rising in the UK as a result of China's National Sword scrap import policies, the debate is picking up over what to do with them. Landfilling, rather than incineration, might be the better option, suggests Keith Freegard, Director of plastics recycler Axion Polymers. China’s crackdown on imports of contaminated recyclables is leading to an ...
By Axion Group
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US Labor Department`s OSHA cites Central Ready Mix for 10 violations after worker fatally engulfed in fly-ash silo at Middletown, Ohio, concrete company
Central Ready Mix LLC has been cited for 10 serious safety violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a 39-year-old plant operator was fatally engulfed in a fly-ash storage silo on Aug. 6 at the Middletown gravel company. "Engulfment is one of the six major hazards present in silo-type storage facilities. Employers can't be assured that ...
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