PRESS RELEASE – 24th January 2011
March Food Waste Anaerobic Digestion plant: Construction underway
Construction has started on the largest food waste digestion plant in the East Anglian region. Monsal, the UKs leading provider of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology and services will complete the plant later this year.
Monsal are providing the technology for green energy company Local Generation who are building their first AD plant in March, Cambridgeshire. The plant will transform 30,000 tonnes of both packaged and unpackaged food waste each year into clean, green energy and will be fully operational later in 2011.
Nick Waterman, Director of Local Generation, says “This is an exciting time for the Local Generation business. It is all systems go now to get our first AD plant up and running! We are really looking forward to seeing our plant take shape. I would like to recognise the excellent support and specifically the Capital Grant received from the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) in helping us to progress this exciting project.
I would also like to thank my Local Generation colleagues, Monsal, Wardell-Armstrong, Firbeck Construction, Authentic Marketing and Boyarsky Murphy teams along with our investors. They have all believed in the project from the start and have helped make it a reality!”
He added that the team are looking forward to establishing a sustainable alternative to landfill that will benefit the region’s economy and its ecology. “We’re genuinely excited about providing an efficient and ethical alternative for dealing with the region’s waste”.
Monsal Managing Director Aidan Cumiskey said, “This plant will provide valuable recycling and renewable energy capacity for the region. We have got the expertise to deal with a large variety of food waste and from our operational experience on other UK sites, we are well positioned to target solid, slurry and liquid food waste with high levels of contamination.
These types of facilities need to be flexible to deal with the high variability in feedstocks found with multi food waste contracts. We remain the only company dedicated to providing a proven solution in this area”
Monsal are now working with leading developers and waste management companies to establish a number of food waste recycling and energy centres across the UK.
Notes to editors
Technology: The project will use the proven technology of anaerobic digestion to break down organic matter to create biogas, which is very similar to methane gas. This provides the fuel for the generators. The Monsal technology is becoming more widely recognised as the technology of choice by developers, utilities, county councils, food producers, waste processors and recycling companies in the UK for this application. The very high organics recovery, renewable energy and thermal efficiency of the Monsal process is achieved by high efficiency de-packaging equipment and state-of-the art Anaerobic Digestion plant and technology.
Monsal. The UK’s leading Advanced Digestion and integrated biogas to energy business.
Local Generation Ltd, Wisbech Road, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15 0BA.
1. WRAP works with businesses and individuals to help them reap the benefits of reducing waste, develop sustainable products and use resources in an efficient way.
2. Established as a not-for-profit company in 2000, WRAP is backed by government funding from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
3. More information on all of WRAP’s programmes can be found on www.wrap.org.uk
Photo – Monsal’s 30,000 t food waste and energy centre in Scotland.
