News in Brief
2 September 2011
SWR wins Edinburgh airport waste contract
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- SWR hopes to increase recycling rates from 6% to 60% under the new contract
Hampshire-based waste company SWR has secured a contract to provide waste and recycling services for aviation ground services provider Derichebourg’s operations at Edinburgh Airport.
Derichebourg’s role at the airport includes cleaning all the planes which come into the airport during their turnaround times, and as such SWR will be responsible for dealing with all the waste collection by the airlines during flights. Under the contract, which is for an undisclosed period, SWR aims to increase recycling rates from just 6% to around 60%, by using its expertise in changing waste processes and providing a high level of customer engagement. SWR’s team will also educate Derichebourg staff about the importance of waste segregation.
SWR chief executive Giles Whiteley said: “Having recently won the BAA contract to manage the waste at Edinburgh Airport we have already begun to make positive changes to the way their waste is handled and disposed of. It is fantastic to be working with Derichebourg as well, as we are now having an impact in all areas of the airport operations. This joined up approach will dramatically improve recycling across the site, while reducing their waste disposal costs by up to 20% in the first year.”
AD trials get go-ahead without permit
Engineering consultancy Wardell Armstrong has helped an anaerobic digestion test centre on Teesside to secure the go-ahead to trial new processes without needing a full environmental permit.
The trials are being run at the Anaerobic Digestion Development Centre, which has been developed by the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Anaerobic Energy Limited. Wardell Armstrong worked with CPI to take advantage of a recent position statement from the Environment Agency which allows small-scale trial projects to proceed for an agreed period without a permit as long as they meet strict criteria. Management plans and programmes were produced to prove the benefits of the trials and also outline the controls that would be put in place and the ADDC is now able to proceed with its research for 12 months without the cost of application fees or any delays to its trials.
Stephen Barnes, an associate director at Wardell Armstrong and a specialist in environmental permitting, said: “The site will only accept about 100 tonnes of waste per year, and the Environment Agency has taken a pragmatic and helpful approach by agreeing a regulatory position statement for the first twelve months of the site’s operation. This has helped to reduce costs and ensure that this important work will go ahead to promote anaerobic digestion and the sustainable use of waste to produce biogas for energy production and digestate for use as a fertiliser.”
enitial wins Bracknell landfill monitoring contract
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- enitial technicians will use the company’s software to monitor three landfill sites in the Bracknell Forest area
Environmental monitoring company enitial has won a contract to manage redundant landfill sites on behalf of Bracknell Forest council.
The arrangement will involve the Wolverhampton-based company monitoring three closed landfill sites in the Berkshire local authority area. enitial technicians will use new software called ‘enidata’ as part of the service to ensure readings from the sites are accurate and quickly uploaded. The service incorporates 24 hour response, environmental monitoring, equipment operation and repair, infrastructure maintenance and full analysis, and reporting of results along with advice and solutions should problems occur.
Ivor Parry, business development director at enitial, said: “We developed enidata in response to the growing demand to capture data electronically. We have found that waste management companies and local authorities alike are seeing the benefit of such a system and enidata played a significant part in gaining these new local authority contracts. We look forward to working with Bracknell.”
Bedford trials carpet recovery at HWRC
Bedford borough council is trialling a new carpet recovery scheme at its Barkers Lane household waste recycling centre.
The HWRC is already recycling over 80% of the waste taken by residents to the site, which it says makes it one of the top performing HWRC’s nationwide, and the hope is that by introducing carpet recycling, it will divert even more waste from landfill. Every year, 500,000 tonnes of carpet waste is sent to landfill in the UK, with alternative disposal routes traditionally being limited. However, this situation is changing as rising landfill costs help to encouraging reprocessing options.
Mayor of Bedford Borough, Dave Hodgson, said “We are committed to continuing to reduce the amount of waste being landfilled by making it easy for residents to recycle as much of their waste as possible. I am delighted we are able to offer carpet recovery at Bedford’s HWRC which will help to protect our environment and reduce our landfill disposal costs saving the local taxpayer money."
Turf harvester purchase takes Eco kit investment to £1m
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- Trelawney Dampney, Eco’s Managing Director, with the new £250,000 Auto Stack II turf harvester
Dorset-based organic waste recycling company Eco Sustainable Solutions has taken the amount it has invested on new kit in the past nine months to £1 million with the purchase of a new turf harvester.
The state-of-the-art AutoStack II cost the company £250,000 and comes after other recent purchases such as a shredder for wood and green waste, an excavator and a loading shovel. The American-built turf harvester is operated by one person and is capable of efficiently harvesting large amounts of turf using its twin 24 inch floating heads. Eco currently produces about 500,000 square metres of turf annually and employs up to 10 staff at peak periods. The turf is grown on 400 acres of sandy loam soil at the company’s Parley site. Compost produced on-site by Eco is used in the growing process.
The company’s managing director, Trelawney Dampney, said: “It’s important to keep investing in the business. This latest purchase provides the clearest possible demonstration of our confidence in the future.”
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