Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has awarded a contract for an anaerobic digestion facility for the disposal of food waste worth an estimated £150,000.
Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre near Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire has generated 50 GWh of green electricity – the equivalent of powering 13,500 homes for a year.
Water and waste company Severn Trent is progressing with its plans to generate electricity from food waste.
The latest meeting of Ofwat’s sludge working group has raised a number of complex issues about opening up the market to competition, including concerns expressed by the Environment Agency about the potential for a “race to the cheapest cost option” by companies to the detriment of the environment.