in vessel composter News
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Buckinghamshire County Council stops tendering process
Buckinghamshire County Council has made the decision to stop the current tendering process to build an in-vessel composting facility in the north of the county due to the “current economic conditions”. During late 2006 the county council began the process of tendering the contract to design, build and finance an in-vessel composting facility in north of the county. This facility would have ...
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Tidy Planet Rocket Composter featured on the BBC`s The One Show
We saw a rather familiar Rocket Composter on the BBC’s The One Show - as environment journalist Lucy Siegle took a trip to Raymond Blanc’s luxury hotel and restaurant, Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, to witness the venue’s closed-loop sustainability model. The well-known TV chef gave viewers a sneak peek at Le Manoir’s in-vessel composter and the on-site ...
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London businesses help Kent agriculture
Food waste collection firm Juniper Food Waste has launched a new collection and composting system for Greater London businesses. The firm, which is part of office plant and grounds maintenance provider Enterprise Plants, will collect the food waste from businesses to be turned into compost. Juniper is using in-vessel composting systems, which will allow the food waste to break down and mature ...
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GBP 1m composter bucks downward financial trend
A composting company is bucking the downward economic trend by announcing it is on target to achieve a £1 million turnover. This would be the first time that Accelerated Compost (AC) had hit such a turnover since it started in 2002. The company, makers of the Rocket in-vessel composter, said its financial success suggests that more companies are taking recycling more seriously than ever before. ...
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TEG and Anagest to build AD/IVC facility
Organic waste specialist TEG has signed a deal with Anagest to jointly build and co-locate an anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting facility site. It will handle 70,000 tonnes of organic waste each year and will be located at Anagest’s site at Stormydown near Bridgend, south Wales. AD will be used to treat 50,000 tonnes of food waste along with energy crops grown on adjacent land to the ...
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Countrystyle Group hit by fire
Countrystyle Group remains positive after a fire caused ‘significant’ damage to its newly-upgraded Parham recycling facility in Suffolk. Eight fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze, which broke out in the main building on 4 January at 4.30pm. It damaged 100 per cent of the roof and walls and 50 per cent of the building’s contents including some equipment and machinery. The cost of the ...
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UK organics company tipped by market analysts
A deal with German technology experts and the imminent financial close of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority deal has made a UK organics company a tipster’s choice. In-vessel composting experts TEG, was picked out by analysts Canaccord Adams, which recommended a “buy” on the stock. The analysts told Reuters TEG was undervalued and has a solid outlook with a strong pipeline of ...
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WRAP GBP 1.5m grant secures GBP 6m in-vessel composting project
A grant of £1.5million has helped secure the development of a £6m in-vessel composting plant set to be the biggest in Ireland. The Waste & Resources Action Programme provided the grant for Natural World Products’ 60,000 tonne a year organics facility, which will be built near West Belfast. NWP director Caolan Woods said: “We were facing a shortfall in funding and receiving the WRAP grant has ...
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Edwin Poots opens Ireland`s biggest IVC facility
Northern Ireland environment minister Edwin Poots opened Ireland’s biggest in-vessel composting facility situated on the edge of West Belfast. The £6 million facility, operated by Natural World Products, will be capable of recycling 60,000 tonnes of household bio-waste, such as food and garden waste, into high quality compost. This will be used as top soil for some of Ireland’s leading golf ...
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TEG significantly expands with £6m acquisition
Composter TEG Group has bought another composting firm Simpro for £6m, increasing TEG’s processing capacity by 180,000 tonnes a year. Approved by shareholders last week, TEG will now be capable of processing 295,000 tonnes of organic waste each year. The deal will add six operational composting sites to the company’s portfolio, which are located in Stoke, Nottingham, Gaydon, Wolverhampton and ...
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Composter Bioganix split in half as assets sold
Two composting sites belonging to failed composter Bioganix have been snapped up by rivals in an assets sell off. New Earth Solutions has bought the in-vessel composting plant in Gloucestershire, while Countrystyle has taken over the IVC facility in Suffolk. Bioganix was forced to sell the sites in a pre-pack arrangement with administrators to avoid insolvency. In a statement it said: “The ...
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Composting industry`s growth is set to continue
Results from the annual Association for Organics Recycling survey has shown a nine per cent increase in recycled organics. The 2007/08 report, put together by AFOR and the Waste & Resources Action Programme, showed 4.5 million tonnes of source segregated waste was composted in the UK with half of this sold on and industry reporting turnover of more than £165m in the year to April 2008. ...
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Innovative composting system halves waste reduction time
Independent composting firm Greenview Environmental is opening the first of four cutting edge ‘organic refineries’ next month. Using an in-vessel aeration system developed by Greenview Environmental founder John Jardine, the refinery will start production on 1 July in Corby. The IVAS composting technology reduces kerb-collected municipal and commercial organic waste to soil improver in just six ...
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OBE for UK councillor that said ‘recycling transcends politics’
The work of a county councillor who ensured a long-term waste and recycling vision transcended short-term party politics has been awarded an OBE. Bernard Whittle, whose OBE is for services to local government, has been a Conservative Lancashire County Councillor for 17 years. He sits on the Cabinet Working Group for the waste private finance initiative contract and the Cabinet Committee on ...
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Countrystyle Group acquires TJ Composting
Waste management and recycling firm Countrystyle Group has significantly expanded its composting services after acquiring TJ Composting. Countrystyle Group will take over TJ Composting’s four operational sites in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and Essex, which all use open windrow composting technologies. A keen supporter of composting, Countrystyle Group already owns two in-vessel composting ...
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Bioaerosol exposure remains health concern for compost site workers
Employees working in close-proximity to compost are potentially exposed to large concentrations of bioaerosols, research by the Health and Safety Executive confirmed. However, the report Bioaerosol emissions from waste comoposting and the potential for workers’ exposure highlighted that bioaerosols are “substantially reduced” at 50 to 100m distance downwind from the source when compared with its ...
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US Composting Council’s 15th Annual Conference & Trade Show: Equipment Demonstrations Are Sold Out for January 2007
Holbrook, New York – In addition to three days of training courses, educational and technical sessions, the USCC annual conference, scheduled for January 21-24, 2007 in Orlando, will also feature Equipment Demonstrations by many of the leading equipment manufacturers and suppliers in the industry. The USCC is pleased to announce that the space for the 'Live' Equipment Demonstrations ...
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Tidy Planet exports Rocket Composter machinery into Australia
Organic waste and Waste-to-Energy solutions expert Tidy Planet is shipping its first ever Rocket Composter unit to Australia, where it will help a not-for-profit community farm to divert 200-300 kg of food and green wastes from landfill per day. The global partnership – facilitated by Tidy Planet’s exclusive Australian distributor, Eco Guardians – will see the A900 In-Vessel ...
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Composter Automates Rotating Drum Operation
Composter automates rotating drum operation with the newly automated PLC Control Panel with Soft Touch Screen by XACT Systems. The user friendly soft touch screen on the front of the control panel was designed for the BioReactor Composting System in order to give the operator easy access to a wide variety of critical data. Data which is vital to the successful composting of solid organic ...
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Safety of windrow composting questioned by British politician
In an attack on the safety of open air windrow composting, an MP has said anaerobic digestion should be the preferred option. During a Commons debate, MP Michael Clapham said that AD was preferable technology for recycling organics because it was “considered safe” and referred to AD as “recycling in a meaningful and productive way”. Clapham said: “As we move towards greater recycling, we find ...
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