PDM and Sainsbury’s work on waste to energy projects
UK-based food waste recycler Prosper de Mulder (PDM) has announced plans to spend £110 million (€123 million) over the next three years on waste to energy plants.
The company will construct five new food waste-to-energy plants using both biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
PDM will secure 17,000 tonnes a year of waste from UK supermarket Sainsbury's 283 nationwide stores by Q3 2009.
PDM is planning a new combustion facility at its site at Nuneaton in Warwickshire, and a second AD facility at Widnes in Cheshire or Nuneaton.
The company secured planning permission earlier in January to build a £25 million 150,000 tonne-a-year capacity biomass plant next to its existing biomass-to-energy plant at Widnes in Cheshire.
It is also expecting a planning decision for its first AD facility, which will be built Doncaster with a 45,000 tonne a year capacity.
The company also has five rendering plants nationwide, helping to prepare a fuel from food waste. The fuel is then sent to its two existing biomass-to-energy combustion facilities to produce both electricity and heat.
‘By using a combination of innovative technologies, along with proven systems such as biomass combustion and anaerobic digestion, we are able not only to divert food waste from landfill but also use it to create energy,’ PDM's commercial director, Philip Simpson, explains.
In related news, Sainsbury’s is launching a zero food waste initiative starting in Scotland. Sainsbury's 28 Scotland stores will begin diverting approximately 42 tonnes of food waste a week from the landfill to be made into biofuel and electricity.
The company will construct five new food waste-to-energy plants using both biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
PDM will secure 17,000 tonnes a year of waste from UK supermarket Sainsbury's 283 nationwide stores by Q3 2009.
PDM is planning a new combustion facility at its site at Nuneaton in Warwickshire, and a second AD facility at Widnes in Cheshire or Nuneaton.
The company secured planning permission earlier in January to build a £25 million 150,000 tonne-a-year capacity biomass plant next to its existing biomass-to-energy plant at Widnes in Cheshire.
It is also expecting a planning decision for its first AD facility, which will be built Doncaster with a 45,000 tonne a year capacity.
The company also has five rendering plants nationwide, helping to prepare a fuel from food waste. The fuel is then sent to its two existing biomass-to-energy combustion facilities to produce both electricity and heat.
‘By using a combination of innovative technologies, along with proven systems such as biomass combustion and anaerobic digestion, we are able not only to divert food waste from landfill but also use it to create energy,’ PDM's commercial director, Philip Simpson, explains.
In related news, Sainsbury’s is launching a zero food waste initiative starting in Scotland. Sainsbury's 28 Scotland stores will begin diverting approximately 42 tonnes of food waste a week from the landfill to be made into biofuel and electricity.
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