incineration bottom ash News
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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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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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