Inside recycling
The Recycling and Waste Management show, co-located with the Energy Event and the new Renewables event at the NEC looks interesting for plant engineers, says Brian Tinham
Sustainable production
Sustainable manufacturing is great in principle but much harder to achieve in practice. Brian Tinham looks at what engineers and managers can do today to make a difference.
Licensed to skill
Keeping Biffa's massive UK waste management operations on the move is a man with a mission. Shaun Stephenson has watched the skills levels within both industry as a whole, and the engineering profession in particular, go through a serious decline - one that has impacted his own company as well - and is determined to see that trend reversed.
Comment: Monster of the deep
A ‘monster’ fatberg, longer than six double-decker buses, has been found in Devon. South West Water says it’s the largest mass of oil, grease and wet wipes discovered in its service history.
CIWM SHOW PREVIEW
The UK's leading waste management event will see over 300 leading manufacturers and service providers promoting the latest products, technologies and concepts. The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)'s annual exhibition and conference takes place this year from 15 to 17 June in Torbay, Devon. It provides an unrivalled platform for those with an interest in environmental management to meet and review the latest ideas and technologies and debate best practice and the way forward with their peers.
The wonders of waste
United Utilities’ £200 million investment at its Davyhulme wastewater treatment works in greater Manchester has put the site right at the forefront when it comes to sewage treatment
Waste & environment - Waste water comes full circle
Ford has commenced tests of a pilot plant that can completely recycle waste water from the company's vehicle paint shops in Saarlouis, Germany. The Saarlouis site produces the new Focus and Focus C-MAX models.
Waste & recycling - Rubbish as a resource
Rubbish is just waste, isn't it? Rubbish! It has significant value as a source of energy, according to a report from the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Renewable Power Association. The report says that if all residual waste were to be sent through a waste-to-power process, this could meet as much as 17% of the UK electricity needs in 2020.
Waste not, want not
With legislation, under EC pressure, now forcing reductions in the quantity of municipal and industrial waste that goes to landfill, the relatively simple processes of collecting rubbish and tipping it into holes are having to be replaced by increasingly complex, automated plant-based operations.
Waste Treatment - Turning pollutants back to rock
By treating waste containing calcium compounds (lime) with carbon dioxide, it possible to quickly and inexpensively convert materials to substances closely resembling limestones or other natural rocks.