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Irish government considers introducing incineration tax

The Minister for Environment in Ireland is considering introducing an incineration levy and increasing landfill tax by the end of the year. Landfill tax in Ireland is currently €20 per tonne and John Gormley is currently looking at advice that would see the landfill tax double in the short term, and eventually quadruple. An ongoing independent international review of regional waste plans is ...

May 19, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Waste to Energy System

Addfield are proud to announce that we have recently collaborated with an energy recovery company and one of the UK’s largest landscaping and recycling companies to create a market-leading waste-to-energy system. Not everything can be recycled so instead of being sent to a landfill it is incinerated and used to create electricity and hot water. This creates a number of benefits such as: ...

Apr. 23, 2015

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

Waste to Energy System

Addfield are proud to announce that we have recently collaborated with an energy recovery company and one of the UK’s largest landscaping and recycling companies to create a market-leading waste-to-energy system. Not everything can be recycled so instead of being sent to a landfill it is incinerated and used to create electricity and hot water. This creates a number of benefits such as: ...

Apr. 23, 2015

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

Polysius and Vecoplan found a joint venture

Alternative raw materials and fuels are gaining in importance Polysius AG of Neubeckum, a member company of the ThyssenKrupp Group, and Vecoplan AG of Bad Marienberg, a subsidiary of M.A.X. Automation AG, are going to address themselves even more strongly to environmental technology for the cement and lime industry. To this end, the two firms have established the joint venture Vecoplan FuelTrack ...

Apr. 8, 2011

By Vecoplan AG

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

Newport grants Biogen gasification plant planning permission

A new gasification plant is set to be built in Newport, south Wales, after planning permission was granted to BioGen Power. The facility will have the capacity to process 120,000 tonnes of waste and will generate 12 MWe of electricity. BioGen Power will work with Energos to provide the technology for the plant. BioGen Power chief executive Christian Reeve said: “This is a highly suitable location ...

Apr. 3, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

EPA Awards Almost $45,000 to New England Student Teams for Sustainable Technology

College teams at Dartmouth College, University of Massachusetts-Lowell and the College of the Atlantic were among 45 college teams nationwide to win approximately $15,000 each from EPA through a student design competition that promotes the design of sustainable technologies to help protect the public health and the environment while also promoting economic development. Teams at the three schools ...

Dec. 12, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Recovering Energy from Waste without Landfilling or Incineration - Ze-gen showcases new gasification technology at EBW UK 2011

Ze-gen, Inc., a US-based firm with plans to build their second commercial scale plant in the UK, has an answer to the problem of the economic viability of waste gasification. With its liquid metal gasification technology, Ze-gen can reliably produce tar-free synthesis gas from selected waste materials, including construction and demolition (C&D) wood waste. The company will exhibit at the ...

Nov. 3, 2010

By Freesen & Partner GmbH

The application of aluminum hydroxide in waste incineration treatment

Waste incineration is a common in our life, waste incineration, emissions from 2 kinds of harmful substances and heavy metals, etc. The stand or fall of waste incineration treatment directly affects our health. But you know garbage incineration used aluminum hydroxide, too? Calcining aluminum hydroxide can generate are widely used as adsorbent, catalyst carrier, such as activated alumina, it has ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By Hongcheng Aluminium Hydroxide Factory

Cynar plc Awards $11M Waste-to-Energy Process Order to Rockwell Automation

Cynar plc, a leading technology company in the waste-to-energy market, has awarded an $11 million contract to Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) to design and build a new end-of-life plastic to fuel conversion plant in Bristol, UK for SITA UK ltd, a Cynar customer and partner in the development. Cynar has developed a technology that converts end-of-life plastics into ...

Mar. 27, 2012

By Rockwell Automation, Inc.

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

Protests to continue against proposed Dartmoor incinerator

A group protesting against a proposed bid to build an incinerator on the site of a former quarry in Devon has said it will continue to campaign against the plans. The plan to build the incinerator on land at Lee Mill, close to Dartmoor National Park, forms part of a proposal submitted to South Devon Waste Partnership by Viridor Waste Management. Devon County Council is currently carrying out a ...

Mar. 15, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

The Waste-to-Energy Market 2013-2023

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The Waste-to-Energy Market 2013-2023 http://www.reportlinker.com/p01120646/The-Waste-to-Energy-Market-2013-2023.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Waste_management Report Details Waste-to-energy (WtE) provides a win-win solution to urban consumer societies by effectively ...

Mar. 13, 2013

By ReportLinker

Advanced Plasma Power’s Gasplasma technology selected for pioneering UK waste-to-jet-fuel project

Advanced Plasma Power (APP) has been selected by leading renewable fuels company Velocys, as the preferred gasification technology provider to support its project to produce sustainable aviation fuel from waste. The project, which has recently secured £4.9m of funding, is being developed with the support of industry partners and the Department for Transport. APP’s Gasplasma® ...

Jun. 20, 2018

By Advanced Plasma Power Limited (APP)

Advanced Plasma Power’s Gasplasma® technology selected for pioneering UK waste-to-jet-fuel project

Advanced Plasma Power (APP) has been selected by leading renewable fuels company Velocys, as the preferred gasification technology provider to support its project to produce sustainable aviation fuel from waste. The project, which has recently secured £4.9m of funding, is being developed with the support of industry partners and the Department for Transport. APP’s Gasplasma® ...

Jun. 20, 2018

By Advanced Plasma Power Limited (APP)

Innovative energy from waste project gets £1.9m injection

A pioneering project to turn waste into energy has today been fired up by £1.9million of funding from Ofgem’s Gas Network Innovation Competition. The Swindon-based demonstration project – managed by National Grid, Advanced Plasma Power and Progressive Energy - will use waste as a feedstock to produce low carbon methane, or bio-substitute natural gas (Bio-SNG). The plant will ...

Nov. 29, 2013

By Advanced Plasma Power Limited (APP)

Heavy Duty Overband for Incinerator Plant

CSWDC (Coventry & Solihull Waste Disposal Co Ltd) are one of only a few LAWDC,s (Local Authority Waste Disposal Company) remaining in the UK. They are a small privately owned Waste Management company, with experience in many aspects of Waste Management including Incineration, Public Waste Site, Landfill. They are owned jointly by Coventry City Council and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, ...

Aug. 22, 2007

By Bunting - Redditch

New technologies needed for wastes in London

Technologies such as gasification and anaerobic digestion will deliver a maximum reduction in climate change emissions while still meeting London’s recycling and renewable energy targets, according to a new report. Greenhouse Gas Balances of Waste Management Scenarios, commissioned by the Greater London Authority, ranks these technologies far higher in the environmental stakes than ...

Feb. 11, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

Waste incineration saves resources and protects the climate

Protection of the climate and resources is one of the key topics at the Entsorga-Enteco the international trade fair for waste management and environmental technology from October 27th to 30th, 2009, in Cologne. Waste incineration makes an important contribution to coping with these two major challenges of this century. The role of waste incineration has changed thoroughly in the past few years. ...

Oct. 30, 2008

By Koelnmesse GmbH

Anaerobic Digestion Says: Waste to Energy and Biomass set to be the recipients of huge capital injections up to 2020

Cascadia Capital, specialist investment bankers, corroborate this view – They believe that technologies capable of converting municipal solid waste to energy are ready for commercialization and will replace incinerators and landfills as the primary option for municipal solid waste. So the opportunity for technologies such as AD and gasification are clear. But the challenge of providing ...

Feb. 3, 2012

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