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"Turning Food Waste into Profit" - HotRot's annual one day conference line up is annouced - RTAB to launch total food waste volumes for the Eastern Region study.
23/06/2006 |
After the success of last year's event, HotRot, with the kind assistance of The Composting Association, are again to host this regional food waste event.
You can sign up (click here) for the event on The Composting Association website. The event will include topics such as:
- Integrating anaerobic digestion with composting plants
- A rough guide to anaerobic digestion technology - matching technology to waste streams
- Developing your business case for biowaste in the East
- Biowaste collections and their influence on technology choice
- How to find food waste and who can help you?
- Free consultancy advice on renewable energy projects in the east
- Composting food waste "in-situ"
and will include a visit to a working Animal By-Product composting facility.
We look forward to seeing you there. |
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Multi-national Invests in HotRot Nappy Composting
27/05/2008 |
HotRot are enormously proud to announce the launch of a collaboration between Envirocomp Ltd and the global nappy making company Huggies® Nappies, to develop what is possibly the World's 1st nappy composting plant.
Envirocomp Ltd was started and is owned by Karen and her husband Karl Upston following the successful trial of nappy collection and composting technology.
Based on a commercial scale trial, Envirocomp Ltd and Huggies® Nappies New Zealand have agreed to a 3 year investment in the HUGGIES ENVIROCOMP SOLUTION and the first plant is due to be up and running later this year!
The Upstons own a business selling both disposable and cloth nappies and have regularly had the cloth vs disposable argument/debate raised with them. As it stands, parents are free to choose the nappy type that best fits their lifestyle based on factors such as performance, cost and convenience.
 In 2006/07, their two children were using disposable nappies full time and both parents were aware of how many nappies they were contributing to landfill each week. While they have always been very keen recyclers, they always felt the ‘guilt’ associated with using disposable nappies. Over the years they tried a selection of both cloth and disposable nappies, but as busy parents the convenience of disposable nappies was very compelling. In response, they decided to trial the composting of disposable nappies on a commercial scale, and contacted R5Solutions, manufacturers of the HotRot range of in-vessel composting systems, for advice and guidance. To their great delight, the HotRot 1206 prototype composting unit was at the time being stored in Auckland and they were offered the use of this technology for the trial.
During 2007, the first commercial scale disposable nappy composting service was trialled using the HotRot technology . The five month trial involved over 200 families, six pre schools, the local maternity hospital, elderly residents and a Christchurch Branch of the IHC. Over those five months approximately 450,000 nappies were composted, which equated to around 56 tonnes that would otherwise have been landfilled. Based on this completed trial, the demand for this service exceeded all expectations and the case for a full time installation was made.
"We were surprised by the sheer number of people waiting for this type of service to be made available and willing to travel and pay for it"
Karen Upston, Owner of Envirocomp Ltd
Having now identified the need for a commercial composting facility, Envirocomp are developing a custom built composting facility. The modular HotRot in-vessel installation will compost 2.5 tonnes daily, the equivalent of over 15,000 and eventually they hope to compost up to 10 tonnes per day. Nappies and incontinence products will be collected from households and businesses and will be charged on a per-bag (containing up 8kg of waste approximately 60 nappies) or per collection (commercially collected wheelie bins) basis for the service. |
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HotRot to host Composting Association Event in July for FOOD WASTE in the Eastern Region.
16/05/2008 |
The July event follows one year on to the day from a similar event hosted by HotRot at it's Brandon site in Norfolk. The event is designed to attract businesses and municipalties alike from the Eastern Region and to offer a geographically specific event. Commenting on the event James Lloyd (MD) stated:
"There is very little in the way of conferences and industry support in the East of England. Most waste orientated events take place in London or more central areas. And yet, there are more organic waste treatment companies and sites in the East than any other region of the Country.
Added to that, the East is the capital of food processing and production in the UK. Over the years I have heard estimates of between 400,000 and 1 million tonnes of putresicble food processing wastes are produced annually in our region. One of the main contributions to the event will hopefully be the presentation of the RTAB work on food waste arisings in the East and can settle just how big the market is out here once and for all.
I am extremely pleased and grateful that The Composting Association has chosen to support and promote this event in our Region and offer the opportunity for nationally recognised experts to come here rather than our regional businesses and local authorities having to trail around the country after them."
The event is likely to include a presentation on behlaf of the authors of the RTAB regional study on food waste arisings, as well as presentations on the pro's and con's of anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting technology, local authority experiences in collecting food waste and letting collection contracts, integrating AD and composting on the same site, depackaging, methods of collection (and biodegradable containers), workshops with NISP and other regional support and funding organisations; and finished by a 1 hour visit to a local in-vessel composting site.
Refreshments and lunch are provided throughout the day.
Anyone interested in collecting and or treating food waste in the Region should attend, whether you intend to treat your own waste or make a business out of treating others.
Watch this space for further information and confirmed speakers. |
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BEKON begin preparations to open NEW PLANT in Melzingen, Germany.
15/05/2008 |
The new plant is expected to begin taking waste within the next week and is designed to accept specially grown energy crops and farm wastes.
The six (6) digesters will process up to 11,000 tonnes per annum of waste materials and energy crops and the site has 500kw of installed capacity utilising Jenbacher CHP units.
The company has a doube celebration as the Salfeeld installation has this month reached full operation and is utilising over 850kw of the 1MW of installed electrical capacity on the site, treating 20,000 tonnes per annum in nine (9) digesters.
The Melzingen plant is the first of six BEKON dry digestion plants due to open this year, one in Italy and a further four in Germany.
Since completing the commissioning of the first full scale plant in Munich, the technology has proved extremely popular, in addition to the six under construction, a considerable number of projects won or in planning stage due for delivery in 2009.
The UK represents an enormous opportunity for the BEKON technology as Councils wrestle with issues such as co- and fortnightly collection. BEKOn dry digestion offers the flexibility and robust process to accept both solid and liquid wastes without compromising mechanical efficiency.
To find out more about the BEKON technology click here.
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On a quest to deliver the complete organic solutions package, HotRot is pleased to announce the launch of two new UK technologies complementary to their flagship HotRot IVC.
05/07/2007 |
The move coincides with the company's departure from simple IP technology provision to the ability to offer a full range of organic waste treatment and renewable energy options. MIDAS® has been designed by innovative HotRot shareholder, Milbank Industries, to fill a gap in the waste processing market for an accelerated maturation process which greatly reduces composting odours, reduces footprint and also manages the amount and difficulty with handling leachate. The aerated and drained floor equipment uses both patented concrete fabrications and standard Milbank sections ~ for floors and roofs. Able to be built as aerated pads, tunnels or large hall composting units, the resulting offering is always flexible and economic and extremely quick to build.
HotRot partner, BEKON®, delivers both wet and dry Biogas technologies (AD) and has been doing so for over four years on kerb separated domestic kitchen and green waste and more recently on farm waste and bio-crops. Dry fermentation is used to process organic waste and generate heat and power from municipal or other similar wastes and a wet fermentation technology is employed for liquid and renewable crop based materials. We are extremely pleased to have formed this partnership with such a high quality, reliable and proven company as BEKON.
Speaking at the CIWM East Anglian Centre meeting in Norfolk on processing food waste, James Lloyd, MD of HotRot stated that:-"It is clear that the UK is moving into a period of fast and extreme change in the way that we deal with our waste. Biological treatment of organic materials has the potential to be the single largest contributor to this process of change and should therefore, as a market segment, deliver solutions and technologies that reflect this." "MIDAS and BEKON complete our strategy of offering customers the full range of organic solutions as opposed to the simple provision waste equipment. Both technologies sit comfortably with each other and with HotRot IVC - either alone or in tandem. The choice will depend on size, type of waste and ability to use heat and power and gives us the ability to tailor the solution to our clients, be they highly knowledgeable and after components or looking for someone to lean on in order to deliver full turn-key solutions. All three offerings are robustly built, simple and safe to operate, produce good product from a given waste, protect the environment from odours, greenhouse gases and leachate and are economic to operate over their lifetimes. We are excited at the prospect of working with customers to match their needs to our new extended offering." |
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