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Reuse NEWS The month in resource management Anaerobic digestion Chris Huhne speaks to LAWR SRF MILESTONE - Recycling firm Niramax has reached its export target ahead recently named by law firm Ward Hadaway as one of the top fifty fastest growing recovered fuel) to one its clients in Denmark. The landmark amount was reached end of the first year of a three-year contract with Akata Bio Energy to supply 180,000 8 Local Authority Waste & Recycling January 2015 KSD Environmental, a Brighton- based waste management specialist, is set to lose its licence to operate vehicles next month after the region's Traffic Commissioner said a "massive culture change" was needed at the business. KSD Environmental told industry regulator Nicholas Denton that even a suspension of its operator's licence would cause the trade waste collection and skip hire business irreparable harm and lead to environmental problems for Brighton. Licence revocation Brighton firm under fire The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) has announced further investment of £1.25m in the London Re-use Network. LWARB funding Anaerobic digestion (AD) will help the UK to keep its lights on and provide energy security because it has the ability to supply power that can be easily switched on and off, according to former energy secretary Chris Huhne. Speaking at the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) national conference at Westminster last month (10 December), Huhne, who is now a strategic advisor at ADBA, said that AD was not intermittent like renewable technologies such as wind and solar power. Speaking to LAWR, he said: "The EU is really reliant on Russian gas. The more we generate our own biogas, the more independent we are from those imports and the potential for those being used, as we have seen in the past, as political leverage." Yorwaste has started work on a contract to handle, process and sell all recycling materials collected from households in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire. The contract with Ryedale District Council will see the waste management firm handling nearly 4,000 tonnes of material each year. New contract North Yorkshire recycling deal The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has announced that it has appointed Jacob Hayler as its new executive director. Hayler will be starting his role on 2 January 2015, and will replace ESA's former director general, Barry Dennis, who retired last month. ESA gets new director Trade body news RECYCLING POUND - Dudley South Parliamentary Candidate Natasha Millward (pictured in the middle) was given a tour of Mason Metals scrap metal recycling operation in Brierley Hill, Dudley, when she visited late last year. Supermarket giant Tesco and Procter and Gamble's air freshener brand Febreze are taking part in a new collaborative project to change recycling behaviours of consumers. The plastics recycling trial, funded by WRAP and Procter and Gamble, seeks to capture and reprocess Febreze packaging that is not normally recycled in the Gloucestershire and Somerset region. Packaging New trial Having exceeded its reuse and recycling targets for a third con- secutive year, the London Re-use Network will receive a second tranche of investment from LWARB. But Denton said the firm, which trades as Kingspan Waste Recycling, had been lamentably slow to take action to improve its vehicle and driver safety standards. The month in resource management SRF MILESTONE - Recycling firm Niramax has reached its export target ahead recently named by law firm Ward Hadaway as one of the top fifty fastest growing recovered fuel) to one its clients in Denmark. The landmark amount was reached end of the first year of a three-year contract with Akata Bio Energy to supply 180,000

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