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Council news NEWS The month in resource management Efficiency savings New AD shredder TOUR DE RECYCLING - Hundreds of SITA UK employees from across the country are taking part in a 2,400 mile, UK cross-country cycle tour to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. The Big Ride cycle relay is organised by national recycling and waste management company SITA UK. The cyclists departed from one of the company's northern-most sites near Aberdeen on 12 May and will finish at its most southerly facility in St Erth, Cornwall, on 20 June. Pictured left to right - Clare Rees (HR manager), Nick Walther (Senior procurement manager) and Steven Melia-Chamberlain (Timber recycling plant operative) 18 Local Authority Waste & Recycling June 2014 MT-Energie, a leading manufac- turer of biogas and gas upgrading plants, has recently completed biological and mechanical com- missioning of a second anaero- bic digestion project for Barfoot Energy Projects, part of vegetable and fresh food supplier Barfoots Group MT-Energie says this confirms "a continuing strong partnership and a common interest in trans- forming food waste into energy". Vehicle safety technology specialist Innovative Safety Systems (ISS) has demonstrated Cyclear, its new cyclist warning display system, to Vehicle safety ISS demonstrates new cyclist warning display system Anaerobic digestion New AD partnership ing industrial shredders for the recycling industry, has launched the new Lindner Limator shred- der specifically for AD plants. The company has partnered up with BioG UK, one of the coun- try's leading agricultural AD crop specialists, to take the Limator to the agricultural market. According to Mach Tech, the machine is a versatile modular impact crusher, designed to improve gas yield by breaking up renewable resources, waste and foods as part of the anaerobic digestion process, to produce biogas. Energy Secretary Ed Davey (pictured third from the right) visits PlasRecycle's plastic film recycling plant. (Left to right) PlasRecycle chairman Paul Levett, Liberal Democrat MEP for London Baroness Sarah Ludford, Energy Secretary Ed Davey and PlasRecycle chief executive Duncan Grierson. Cynthia Barlow, chair of RoadPeace and cyclist safety campaigner, during a visit to the company's new premises in Coventry. ISS says its Cyclear system has an illuminated sign and speaker to alert cyclists when the vehicle is turning left. The system also features a sequencing sensor, which notifies the driver when a cyclist or pedestrian is approaching. Aberdeen City Council (ACC) has announced that it will be moving from a dual-stream col- lection system to a commingled one "over the next few years". It announced this in its 'Aberdeen City Waste Strategy 2014-2025', which was published last month. Aberdeen City Council out- lined that moving to a fully commingled recycling service will "significantly increase [its] recycling rates and… drastically reduce [its] landfill costs' as it will 'allow residents to put all recyclable materials into one container". Aberdeen opts for commingled Agricultural anaerobic diges- tion (AD) developer BioG UK has teamed up with a nation- al industrial shredder special- ist to market a new AD shred- der, guaranteed to increase gas yields for AD plants. Mach Tech Services, a Lancashire-based com- pany which specialises in sell- Viridor has announced that it has been awarded a ten-year contract to upgrade and operate a new material recycling facility (MRF) at Chelson Meadow by Plymouth City Council that will improve the recycling services to households across Plymouth. The new £6m facility will sort all the kerbside collected recyclate and enable Plymouth residents to now include glass in their recycling boxes. Waste management Viridor awarded 10-year MRF contract A businessman has launched a new private waste collection service in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, after becoming disgruntled with the fortnightly service his council provided, according to local press. Andrew Brown's domestic and business waste collection service – known as Rubbish Service – will fill in between the fortnightly council-provided services for a small fee charged direct to customers, Harrogate News stated. New firm set up by resident Waste management NEWS June 2014 Local Authority Waste & Recycling 19 Crack down on fly-tipper, 10,000 recycled toilets and hidden treasure Ealing Council, based in west London, has charged a resident £15,000 after clearing 15 tonnes of "rotting rubbish and waste" from the rear garden of his property in Kings Avenue, Greenford. The Council took action after it received numerous complaints from neighbours about safety hazards and fire risks at the local resident's (identified only as 'Mr Williamson') house, and identified both mixed waste and hazardous waste piled up in his back garden. The waste included old car parts, building waste, flammable gas bottles, broken lawnmowers and a dead animal, amongst other things. The Council served Williamson with an untidy land notice after several requests to clear the waste and rubbish were ignored. This required Williamson to clear the waste within two months. However, on identifying failure to comply with this notice, the Council brought in planning officers and 'specialist contractors' last month to clean up the waste. The cost of the large-scale rubbish clearance, which reportedly totalled £15,000, will now be charged to Williamson and, if not paid within four weeks, will be placed as a charge on the land. A sports trophy — first presented by a Buxton club over 100 years ago — is making an unlikely comeback after being rescued from the scrap heap. The large silver trophy, hallmarked and inscribed with the words 'Buxton Lawn Tennis Tournament Men's Singles Champion of Derbyshire, presented by the Duke of Devonshire', was discovered at a Nottinghamshire waste recycling centre in April, according to Matlock.Mercury.co.uk. Site recycling supervisor Tony Hoy, of East Midlands resource management and recycling specialists Wastecycle, was taken aback when he spotted the metallic object poking out of a pile of rubbish. Since then, he was on a mission to reunite the discovered item with its rightful owner. After freeing the trophy from the waste, it was transferred to Wastecycle's headquarters in Nottingham, cleaned and securely stored while investigations were made with Buxton Tennis Club as to its origins, the website reported. Chinese artist Shu Yong cre- ated this amazing waterfall using over 10,000 recycled toilets, sinks and urinals that took just over two months to create. The greatest thing about this installation is that it is a permanent piece of public art! Not sure if we would go to touch them though! Recycling Bits and Pieces The month in resource management TOUR DE RECYCLING - Hundreds of SITA UK employees from across the country are taking part in a 2,400 mile, UK cross-country cycle tour to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. The Big Ride cycle relay is organised by national recycling and waste management company SITA UK. The cyclists departed from one of the company's northern-most sites near Aberdeen on 12 May and will finish at its most southerly facility in St Erth, Cornwall, on 20 June. Pictured left to right - Clare Rees (HR manager), Nick Walther (Senior procurement manager) and Steven Melia-Chamberlain (Timber recycling plant operative) YOUR ROUND-UP OF THIS MONTH'S TOP STORIES ACROSS THE INDUSTRY The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has launched hundreds of local clean-up events to help spruce up the capital for the sum- mer, with £50,000 worth of grants and clean-up kits from City Hall. Volunteers will be painting over graffiti, replanting flower Litter £50k clean-up fund launched beds and removing litter from London's streets, green spaces, and waterways as part of the Mayor's Capital Clean-up initia- tive. Resident and community groups, schools, and charities have received clean-up kits and grants of up to £1,500 each, the largest in the campaign's eight year history (pictured below). The scheme is supported by McDonald's and is part of the Mayor's volunteering scheme.

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