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WWT: What are the aims of
GENeco as an organisation?
MS: It was just over six years ago
that I was tasked by our board
with delivering a step change in
sustainability for Wessex Water, and
the key strategic themes that came
out at that time were around being
carbon neutral and at the same time
being a zero waste company. Those
were the two visionary goals that
we set ourselves to achieve by 2020.
I argued at the time that it would be
far more effective to have a separate
organisation, with a very different
culture, to help deliver on that vision;
ultimately the board signed off on this
and GENeco was formed.
What are the different waste
streams from which you
generate energy?
We are responsible for running the
Bristol Sewage Treatment Works,
which treats the sewage flow from
Bristol and the local conurbations,
a population equivalent of around
a million people. We also have
what we class as an organic waste
business, which takes over 600,000
metres cubed of organic waste from
industry, which we process in a
sustainable way; we also take the
sewage, or biosolids, from all Wessex
Water's sites and we recycle that to
agriculture, this amounts to around
250,000 tonnes that we recycle every
mohammEd saddiq
MANAGING DIRECTOR
GENECO
Driving forward with
biomethane
WWT meets Mohammed
Saddiq of GENeco, the
Wessex Water subsidiary
which is generating power
and valuable biomethane
from sewage, organic and
food waste
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