UK Landfill Tax Regulations – Effects and the Rate for 2021
UK Landfill Tax Regulations first came into being on October 1, 1996, when the United Kingdom government imposed a landfill levy on trash disposal in landfills. The tax’s goal was, and continues to be, to encourage businesses and consumers to produce less trash, dispose of less garbage in landfills, and recover more value from trash […]
Small-Scale Separators for Dairy Farms and AD Plants
New Small-Scale Separator is Big on Results Following the success of its acclaimed Separators since their launch in 2016, Borger has released a new, affordable, 25 m³/h model, suitable for dairy farmers with herds of up to 150 – and for small-scale biogas operators. The launch of this compact new Bioselect RC 25 Small-Scale Slurry Separators (which […]
Landfill Site Environmental Resource Centres
Children (and Adults!) benefit from visits to landfill site environmental resource centres, where facilities are provided free of charge for school groups and members of the public to learn about the environment of landfills, and what happens to their waste. Landfills traditionally have a reputation as unpleasant places, but many modern landfills are throwing off […]
How “Waste Management Licensing” Became “Environmental Permitting” in the UK
This is the story of how the old UK “Waste Management Licensing” regulations were repealed and EU IPPC regulations were implemented and called “Environmental Permitting” in the UK. “One Stop Shop” for UK Environmental Regulation A so-called, “One Stop Shop” for the environmental regulation of sites operated by the waste management industry in the UK, […]
Soil Washing Treatment of Contaminated Land
Soil washing has become an important method for cleaning up contaminated land. It was first propelled into the mainstream as a process for this purpose in the UK in 2004. The reason for this was that the summer of 2004 saw the implementation of EU Landfill Directive requirements in the UK. The implementation of EU […]
Börger FL1036 Pumps Avoid Wasted Biogas Feedstock Trips
At first sight, this headline sounds impossible, and we admit that at first, we thought how could Börger FL1036 Pumps (or anybody else’s for that matter!) avoid wasted Biogas Feedstock trips – or trips to anywhere at all! But this is perfectly possible and highly environmentally beneficial while saving the operator a lot of transport cost. The […]