Lindhurst Engineering has successfully tested microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology to help dairy processors dispose of waste streams and generate energy, and MD Martin Rigley told Dairy Reporter.com that an installation could cost 75% less than its anaerobic...
A UK dairy company is to cut processing costs after investing £3.4m in an anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to turn food waste into renewable energy.
EU legislators yesterday voted in favour of proposals to introduce
a controversial five-stage hierarchy of priority for the bloc's
waste management policy.
A proposed revision to the EU's waste management policy would give
preferential treatment to reusable packaging, such as bottles, over
recyclable materials.
Fonterra has developed a label that can be recycled along with the
plastic wrap that goes around pallets of goods in order to reduce
the amount of waste that is sent to landfill.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety
and Energy Technology in Germany are developing a compostable
packaging tape that can be disposed of cheaply and creates less
waste.
Kraft Foods has commissioned an innovative food wastewater
treatment facility at a US cheese plant, which it claims will
reduce waste by more than 90 per cent, writes Anthony
Fletcher.
Changes to laws governing waste, energy consumption and emissions
are forcing plants to alter their methods of operation. Anthony
Fletcher spoke to the UK Environment Agency's head of waste
management to find out what plant managers...
In the US, Bion Environmental Technologies and the California
Agricultural Technology Institute will work together to assess the
performance of a Bion NMS dairy waste treatment system.