Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Iain Gulland, chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland. It said Scotland’s net-zero target for 2045 was a significant step towards meeting the national pledge. It means reducing all our emissions to zero. But net-zero cannot be the end point. He added: “The need to move beyond net-zero is clear.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Newhaven waste incinerator, East Sussex. A legal challenge has been issued to the Government’s decision to exclude municipal waste incinerators from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme – the replacement for the existing EU Emissions Trading Scheme, to come into effect after the UK leaves the EU.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project which the utility says will accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040. Four vanadium flow batteries, manufactured by Invinity Energy Systems, have recently been installed at the waste water treatment works that serve the city of Perth.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

A new “Jet Zero Strategy” seemingly commits UK domestic aviation to achieving net zero emissions by 2040, and for all airports in England to be zero-emission by the same year. The Jet Zero Strategy is said to build on the government’s existing strategies for net zero, and transport decarbonisation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Recycling and resource management firm Viridor has unveiled its “Vision for Zero” – a plan to reduce (to zero) the amount of plastic waste exported from the UK. The circular economy for plastics report highlights the significant role that recycling plastics can play in ensuring the UK achieves net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

A communiqué signed by UK mayors and local leaders calls for a ‘power shift’ from Whitehall so that local and regional authorities can deliver Net Zero. Ensuring the new UK Infrastructure Bank has a Net Zero mandate to deliver local investment in Net Zero projects. license ).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The research report, “ Smaller businesses and the transition to net zero “, highlights the potential collective influence of UK smaller businesses and the considerable contribution they could make to wider net zero objectives if they all made changes to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

.” If this is delivered, the UK will be on track to meet its 2050 commitment: net zero greenhouse gases by 2050. Therefore, the central theme is: There’s no Net Zero without Biogas.” “The UK anaerobic digestion industry has a critical role to play in helping the government achieve this.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

Almost 52 million has been awarded to 25 businesses in the UK to support the adoption of innovative emissions-cutting projects, including carbon capture and storage, as part of the government’s Plan for Change, which aims to expedite the energy transition and progress to net zero. Heinz, which received over 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Net Zero Lighting 2025 conference “which made its hugely successful debut in 2024” is set to be held again on Thursday 29 April 2025. Lighting and electrical manufacturers are invited to gather at a special event to share insights and learnings on cutting their carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

By creating sustainable energy from organic wastes, AD can support local economies, strengthen supply chains, and provide cleaner energy sourcesoffering a route to reinvigorate areas where traditional industries have waned. The closure of the oil refinery in Grangemouth has amplified perceptions that progress has stalled.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Expanded capabilities will improve traditional clinical waste hierarchy positions and can lower the carbon emissions by around 70% compared to existing services Veolia says it has expanded its medical waste management capabilities with the aim of addressing key issues for the healthcare sector and the NHS.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A consultation setting out plans for a mandatory digital waste tracking service in the UK was launched on 21 January 2022. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Government say they have been working with UK partners to develop a four-nation approach to digital tracking of waste movements. Data access controls.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Environmentally responsible decommissioning company, CessCon Decom, has teamed up with researchers at Abertay University to explore how marine growth – a waste by-product of the decommissioning process – can be recycled and reused. The results of this work will help advise follow-on steps of the project.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

UK Power Networks team at Allington Energy-from-Waste in Kent. The next-generation digital substations will use AI and machine learning to allow more energy to be safely released onto the network, and help accelerate the UKs transition to Net Zero carbon emissions. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 13, 2025

A new strategic partnership between SSE Energy Solutions and Scottish Water Horizons aims to develop low-carbon district heat networks across Scotland, accelerating the country’s journey toward net zero. Heat networks are projected to meet up to 20% of the UK’s heat demand by 2050, according to recent government figures.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Heat networks can use a number of energy sources including renewable energy such as electricity, bioenergy, geothermal sources, solar thermal and energy from industrial processes including waste or waste heat. Support Scotland’s journey to net-zero by taking into account the skills needed for the expansion of heat networks.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. 100 billion green investment.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK. ” .” ” .” ”

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

The latest findings reveal that to meet net-zero targets, the retrofit market must grow from $500 billion today to approximately $3.9 Without adopting circular practices, this surge in retrofitting activity could lead to unsustainable levels of raw material consumption and waste. trillion by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Commissioned in 2014, Fraddon Biogas is Cornwalls leading AD plant, converting organic waste from local farmers, bakeries and food and drink producers. ” Johan Lourens, Commercial Manager, Material Change, was delighted to host Mr Law, who showed keen interest in their local waste-to-energy operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

What appears to be the UK’s first hydrogen-fuelled waste collection vehicle was revealed on 17 February in Aberdeen, seemingly running on green hydrogen from existing refuelling infrastructure in the city.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To ensure net-zero targets are met despite this, the fuels used in these vehicles will need to become more sustainable, explains Chris Kaufield, VP of sustainability and electrification at Booster ®, in a recent article for Modern Work Truck Solutions magazine.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These fuels can be deployed in parallel to the longer transition to EVs to speed overall decarbonization, explains Chris Kaufield, VP of Sustainability and Electrification at Booster ®, in a recent article for Automotive Fleet magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We are using the guidance provided by the Carbon Trust to accelerate our journey to Net Zero. We continue to identify opportunities to reduce waste, removing the requirement for plastic packaging by introducing innovations such as reusable wooden crates for the delivery of actuators to site.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has received its first waste delivery by train at its Ferrybridge site in West Yorkshire this week (9 July). The group says this milestone expands the area that enfinium’s Ferrybridge 1 and 2 facilities can receive unrecyclable waste from, reduces road traffic and lowers transport emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) published the Scottish Waste From All Sources 2022 Official Statistics on 26 March, which provide details on waste from Scottish households, businesses and public services. million tonnes of waste, with 62.3% of all wastes ending up in landfill, for an all-time low figure of 2.30

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Brighton and Hove appears to be the UK city closest to becoming net zero, according to a recent analysis 1 of emissions per capita from alldayPA , a UK call-answering customer services company. Currently, the city’s CO2 levels are below 3.0t (2.8t), which is in line with the UN’s net zero sitemap.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated a novel system for transforming captured carbon and plastic waste into sustainable fuels and other valuable chemicals using solar energy. But, if we add plastic waste to the system, the plastic donates electrons to the CO 2. Capturing and using CO 2 from the air makes the chemistry more difficult.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

The body representing Scottish SME resource and waste management operators says recycling services across the country are under threat following the UK Government’s refusal to exempt the sector from today’s cutting of the Red Diesel exemption.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The ADBA Scottish Conference 2023 will feature opening and closing keynote addresses from – respectively – Maurice Golden MSP, Convener, Cross-Party Group on Circular Economy, the Scottish Parliament, and Sarah Boyack, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Transport and the Just Transition, Scottish Labour Party.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2025

. “The new sites in Conwy, Gwynedd, Pembrokeshire, and Anglesey mark a significant step in Polytags Ecotrace Programme,” said the group, “an industry-led initiative empowering brands, retailers, and waste management businesses with real-time data on the recycling of single-use plastic.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

This would deliver a 6% reduction in total UK greenhouse gases emissions, specifically within the hard-to-decarbonise sectors of heat, transport, waste management and agriculture, and 30% of the reduction needed by 2030 to meet our legally binding carbon budget. million homes, by 2030, according to a new report from the industry group ADBA.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

More than 53 million metric tonnes of e-waste was produced in 2019. The reactionary purchasing of additional IT equipment has sparked new e-waste fears, as enterprises collectively increase the volumes of devices they own. Alan Bentley, Head of Global Strategy, Blancco.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The pilot is installed at enfinium’s Ferrybridge-1 energy from waste facility in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, and is capturing one tonne of CO2 emissions from the plant’s operations each day.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste Ltd. Joseph Doherty, MD of Re-Gen Waste, which provides materials recovery facilities for Council waste in the UK, has questioned the wisdom of Government plans to scrap the lower rate of fuel duty on red diesel from April 2022, which he says will add an extra £200,000 per annum cost to his company’s fuel bill.

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