SCOTLAND PLANS LARGEST EVER ANAEROBIC DIGESTOR

摘要

With UK landfill taxes set to rise in April 2011, as the emphasis grows on recycling and recovery, while new incentives encourage renewable energy from waste, and innovative new technologies come on stream, the opportunities for small and medium-sized contractors have never been greater. Nowhere is this truer than in the area of commercial and industrial biomass wastes, where the volumes being generated in the UK are four to five times higher than municipal solid waste. And nowhere are the commercial and environmental pressures greater than in Scotland, where the recycling targets are the highest in Europe. So the recent news that planning permission has been given for Scotland's largest ever anaerobic digestion facility, capable of handling around 105,000 tonnes of biomass a year, should be a real inspiration for smaller contractors looking to diversify into new resource streams and to take advantage of a whole new market.