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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 ...

Apr. 8, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

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 ...

May 4, 2018

By Matthews Environmental Solutions Ltd.

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 ...

Sep. 14, 2006

By Keppel Seghers Pte Ltd

Waste-to-Energy - A burning issue for tomorrow`s cities

Long considered a costly problem, municipal solid waste is now emerging as an important revenue-generating feedstock for waste-to-energy systems. As municipalities look to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of their sustainability planning initiatives, new and innovative methods for burning wastes to generate heat and power are emerging. And while, at first ...

Oct. 6, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

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 ...

Feb. 23, 2018

By Axion Group

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 ...

Nov. 26, 2013

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)