CIWM elects Junior Vice President
Mr Greedy has over 30 years experience in the private and public sectors of waste management and recycling and is currently the principle waste management advisor with Warwickshire county council. Mr Greedy has been involved with a number of CIWM committees and Special Interest Groups since joining the CIWM in 1983 and currently chairs both the CIWM Midlands Centre Council and the CIWM Scientific and Technical Committee. Upon taking the role in October 2009, Mr Greedy will replace Barry Dennis, deputy chief executive of the Environmental Services Association, who will move to the position of senior vice president.
Mr Greedy said: “The Institution has played a key role in developing professionalism and skills in this industry, as well as providing a forum for waste professionals to come together and share experience and good practice. I am delighted to have been elected, particularly at a time when sustainable waste and resource management is right at the top of the agenda.”
NISP diverts 10,000 tonnes of bottom ash
The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme's (NISP) Yorkshire and Humber team has diverted 10,000 tonnes of ash generated by a municipal energy-from-waste plant to be sold as fill aggregate.
The Defra-funded business support organisation identified a number of sources in the Yorkshire and Humber region generating substantial volumes of incinerator bottom ash (IBA) that were suitable for reprocessing into a basic fill material for construction projects. Utilising the IBA, NISP undertook a series of trials to create roadfill from the bottom ash with Wakefield-based Gilbert Chapple Haulage Limited (GCH Ltd), which had been sourcing quantities of ash for the blockmaking industry for many years, and had also secured a number of routes to market for pipe bedding and trenchfill material.
Gilbert Chapple, director of GCH Ltd, said: “We are pleased to be involved in a project which actively prevents unnecessary use of landfill and at the same time uses our expertise to recover saleable material. We look forward to continuing out working relationship with NISP in the foreseeable future.”
Energy firm welcomes AD task force
Following news that Defra has set up a task group to stimulate the development of AD technology among public bodies, businesses and farmers (see letsrecycle.com story), the Manchester-based company intends to expand its engineering team to meet growing demand for methane-rich biogas projects, such as AD. ENER-G currently operates a large number of biogas facilities in Europe and the UK.
Hugh Richmond, director of ENER-G, said: “I very much hope the new government-backed task group will help to change attitudes and open people's eyes to the opportunities to AD, which can deliver huge commercial benefits, while helping to hit national targets on carbon emission reductions.”
West Sussex calls for support over commercial waste
West Sussex county council has called on the government to help it develop a long-term strategy to tackle commercial waste.
Speaking at a seminar on waste management last month, Derek Whittington, the cabinet member for strategic planning at West Sussex, called on the government to help address commercial waste that could not yet be recycled. The council intends to focus on non-recyclable waste as a resource, as it is intending to do in its household waste stream. The seminar was intended to bring together representatives of the district and borough councils and also those from the private waste industry to discuss means of tackling commercial waste issues.
Councillor Whittington said: “Already the county council is working in partnership with the district and the boroughs to lead an award winning business waste recycling scheme. We are now looking to government to support us as we move forward to develop long term solutions for the elements of commercial waste that are not yet recyclable.”
Redbridge increase fleet
The vehicles, which are being supplied by Hatfield-based S&B Commercial, are expected to be in place by early March and the Essex-based local authority plans to have nine Econics with Heil Eurocycler bodies in service on kerbside collections of recyclable waste, and a further 15 trucks on standard domestic and trade refuse duties. Redbridge council owns the vehicles but they are operated on its behalf by waste disposal partner Enterprise, and has earmarked one Econics vehicles to be a dedicated cardboard collection vehicle.
Eddie Cross, engineering manager at Redbridge, said: “The contract runs until 2010. By then we expect that the majority of the vehicles on our refuse and recycling fleet, which currently extends to 40 units, will be Econics.”
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