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Expansion NEWS The month in resource management New contract Wood recycling deal unveiled FROM BIN CURVE TO BARBICAN - Old newspapers, discarded concert tickets art that wraps around the back of the Barbican's concert hall in London. Artist has pinned more than 12,000 prints to the 90m wall of the hall's curve space. The 8 Local Authority Waste & Recycling November 2014 The Anaerobic Digestion & Biogas Association (ADBA) has announced that it has changed its name to the Anaerobic Digestion Anaerobic digestion ADBA changes name Waste disposal specialist BKP Waste and Recycling has celebrat- ed its 50th anniversary by expand- ing its operations. The firm deals primarily with industrial services and hazardous waste disposal. However, it has now expanded its operation to include a fully licensed liquid waste transfer and treatment station at its Casbrook Park site, in Timsbury, Hampshire. This facil- ity will handle waste streams such as onshore drilling muds. BKP celebrates 50th anniversary Hadfield Wood Recyclers has announced that it has secured a major waste wood contract for approximately 100,000 tonnes of wood over the next four years. Following an in-depth tendering process with Veolia, Hadfield has secured access to waste wood arisings at Essex recycling centres. The wood recycling company has been working with Veolia and the county council since 2008 and was asked to re-tender for this new contract. Aluminium rolling and recycling company Novelis officially opened its new €200 million (£161 mil- lion) recycling centre yesterday in Nachterstedt, Germany. The new centre (plans for which were first announced in 2012) is adjacent to the company's rolling mill and, according to Novelis, will be able to annually process up to 400,000 metric tonnes of aluminium scrap (largely from beverage cans), mak- ing it the "world's largest alu- minium recycling facility". Aluminium Novelis opens giant recycling plant Scotland is set to retain similar landfill tax rates to those set by Chancellor George Osborne when further powers are devolved to the Scottish Parliament in April 2015. Finance Secretary John Swinney confirmed the standard rate of Scottish landfill tax should be at £82.60 per tonne and lower rate £2.60 per tonne. The Scottish Government also announced that communities near landfill sites will benefit from increased funding form the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund. Landfill tax Scotland CLEAN MACHINE - Bristol-based window cleaning firm Aspects Solutions (ASL) has launched a new waste management service. To launch the new service, ASL has purchased a fleet of three 'Quality Used' vehicles from Refuse Vehicle Solutions (pictured above). & Bioresources Association in response to, what it calls, "a rapidly changing political and economic landscape". The change has been made in recognition of the fact that, as new technologies and products develop, there will be "opportunities to innovate and incorporate them with anaerobic digestion to improve profitability and sustain the industry's growth". The month in resource management FROM BIN CURVE TO BARBICAN - Old newspapers, discarded concert tickets art that wraps around the back of the Barbican's concert hall in London. Artist has pinned more than 12,000 prints to the 90m wall of the hall's curve space. The

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