10 January 2020Director banned for exceeding wood storage limits
The director of a wood recycling company based in Walsall has been fined just £860 and ordered to pay costs of £14,000 after “storing nearly four times as much waste allowed by law.” According to a statement from the ...
8 January 2020Agency updates low risk wood positions
The Environment Agency has updated its low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste wood, which set out its regulatory stance on certain operations in the sector. First published in August 2019, the LRWPs cover operations which the ...
8 January 2020‘Potential crisis’ over demolition wood testing: WRA
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) has warned of a “potential crisis” – which could cost the demolition sector more than £100 million a year – if more waste wood samples are not submitted for hazardous testing. The...
3 January 2020‘Progress made’ in Port Clarence talks
The investment company behind the Port Clarence biomass project has said that progress has been made in finding a “positive outcome” for the 325,000 tonne-per-year capacity waste wood plant. However, Glennmont Partners are...
14 November 2019Drop in German demand leads to new wood markets
Geminor has announced that it has completed the “first ever” shipment of crushed waste wood from Denmark to Latvia as it seeks alternative markets due to a “sudden halt in German demand”. The Norwegian-owned waste fuel ...
4 November 2019‘A need for waste wood rules and standards’
OPINION: 'To recycle or not to recycle – that’s the question': Replacing fresh wood with waste wood is a growing trend which is meeting political ambition in Europe. However, the full potential of material recycling is far from achieved, ...
9 October 2019Eco Sustainable to invest over £2m in operations
Dorset-based recycler Eco Sustainable Solutions is set to invest over £2 million in their operations before the end of 2019. In the past year the company reports expenditure of £1.3 million on new equipment for its work, ...
7 October 2019BIG Group opens waste wood gasification plant
The Bioenergy Infrastructure (BIG) Group has officially opened its 170,000 tonne per year capacity waste wood gasification plant in Ince, Cheshire. However, the plant – handed over to BIG last year before becoming fully ...
20 September 2019Agency offers further extension on waste wood RPS
The Environment Agency (EA) has extended a Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) on the use of mixed waste wood by a further ten months, to allow completion of a major project. The Waste Wood Classification (WWC) Project is being ...
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