Welcome to High Heavens Animal ByProducts Composting Plant

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Welcome to High HeavensAnimal By-Products
Composting Plant
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High Heavens ABPR Composting Plant

• The plant was constructed, and is owned by,
  Buckinghamshire County Council
• The High Heavens plant is operated by Terra Eco
  Systems on behalf of Buckinghamshire County
  Council
• The plant is designed to process 40,000 tonnes of
  kerbside collected household waste per annum but
  its present capacity is approximately half of
  this.
• It has been in service since August, 2004

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Terra Eco Systems (TES)

• We are Recycling arm of Thames Water
• Formed in 1989
• Relevant staff with agricultural backgrounds
• Operations throughout UK
• Our Main Areas of Business are -
• Core Recycling of Biosolids.
• Recycling Solutions throughout UK.
• Restoration.
• Horticultural Compost.
• Animal By-Products Composting
• Domestic Waste.

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TES Waste Management Operations

• Business activities-
• Processing and recycling of waste streams for
  Industry.
• Clean water treatment work sludges, sands, grits
  screenings and weeds.
• Waste water sludges.
• Recycling solutions for non-compliant and raw
  sludges.
• Green Waste and Animal By-Products composting for
  local authorities.
• United Kingdom
• Recycle 25 of all Biosolids in England and
  Wales.
• Recycle 70 of all Biosolids in Scotland.
• Other Waste Streams (coffee/paper sludges etc.).
• Thames Valley
• 455,000 m3 cake (2000/01).
• 700,000 m3 liquid (2000/01).
• 349 works.
• Composting plants at Little Marlow and High
  Heavens
• 2 energy recovery plants.

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Horticultural Grade Composting Plant

• Quality Controlled
• gt160 Retail Outlets
• Peat Free
• RSPB Endorsement
• Innovative Solution

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An over view of Waste Strategy for England and
Wales
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Waste in England and Wales

Total Arisings Approx 30 million tonnes

• Source DEFRA - Municipal Waste Management
  survey 2003/2003

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Current National Waste Management Practice

• Source DEFRA - Municipal Waste Management
  survey 2003/2003

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The National Waste Strategy

• The principal Waste Management policy document
  currently in place is Waste Strategy 2000 (for
  England and Wales) which was published by the
  DETR in May 2000.
• This Document is expected to guide Waste
  Management Policy and Legislation beyond 2015 .

Source Waste Strategty 2000 (England and Wales
(Part 1)
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The National Waste Strategy

• To encourage more efficient use of resources, the
  Government expects value to be recovered (either
  by recycling, composting or energy recovery) from
  40 of municipal waste by 2005 (rising to 67 by
  2015).
• Within this particular target, the Government has
  set discrete targets for recycling and
  composting to ensure that this particular form of
  waste management has a significant role to play
  in meeting recovery targets

• 25 of Household waste to be recycled or
  composted by 2005
• 30 of Household waste to be recycled or
  composted by 2010
• 33 of Household waste to be recycled or
  composted by 2015

Source Waste Strategty 2000 (England and Wales
(Part 1)
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Instruments for change

• The Waste Strategy 2000 (England Wales)

This Strategy Document sets mandatory targets for
the reduction of biodegradable waste that is sent
to landfill in line with European Union Council
Directive 1999/31/EC. Biodegradable Waste is
organic municipal waste which decays and produces
methane (an inflammable gas that is released into
the atmosphere and contributes to global
warming) and a liquid that can pollute water in
the ground and on the surface.
Source Waste Strategty 2000 (England and Wales
(Part 1)
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Waste in England and Wales

• Source DEFRA - Municipal Waste Management
  survey 2003/2003

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Landfill Reductions
The mandatory targets for the reduction of
biodegradable waste that is sent to landfill are
as follows -

• 75 of the amount produced in 1995 by 2010
• 50 of the amount produced in 1995 by 2013
• 35 of the amount produced in 1995 by 2020

The anticipated effect of the Directive for the
UK Landfill Industry is indicated on the
following slide.
Source Council Directive 1991/31/EC
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The Result of the EU Directive
Source Waste Strategty 2000 (England and Wales
(Part 1)
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Waste In Buckinghamshire

• Buckinghamshire currently produces approximately
  250,000 tonnes of municipal waste per annum
• Buckinghamshire currently sends 190,000 tonnes of
  municipal waste to landfill (approximately 77 of
  the total).
• Buckinghamshire currently recycles 57,000 tonnes
  of municipal waste (approximately 23 of the
  total)
• These figures show that Buckinghamshire performs
  better than the National Average.
• Source BCC - Waste Strategy for Buckinghamshire
  2001 - 2021

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National Recycling Rates
Source Waste Strategty 2000 (England and Wales
(Part 1)
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National Recycling Rates
Source Waste Strategty 2000 (England and Wales
(Part 1)
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The Challenge

• Biodegradable Municipal Waste (BMW) production is
  expected to continue to grow by approximately 3
  every year.
• The availability of landfill for BMW will reduce
  by 65 over the period 1999 to 2020 in accordance
  with the EU Directive.
• The required recovery of BMW after permitted
  landfilling will rise from 72,600 tonnes at 2010
  to 163,700 tonnes in 2020 (an increase of 125
  over the decade).
• The projected shortfall between the amount of BMW
  which can realistically be recycled or composted
  under existing schemes and that which should be
  diverted from landfill grows by some 440 to
  108,900 tonnes at 2019/2020
• Source BCC - Waste Strategy for
  Buckinghamshire 2001 - 2021

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And so..

• If Government Targets are to be met it will be
  necessary to rapidly expand existing recycling
  and composting facilities.
• It is Government Policy that Waste should, as far
  as possible, be managed close to its origin so as
  to minimise public nuisance and collateral
  pollution from road transport.
• Local Authorities face severe financial penalties
  if they fail to meet Government Targets.
• There is often public resistance to the siting of
  waste processing and composting facilities close
  to urban areas.

The next few years will be an interesting time
for the Waste Management industry!!
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