Jerusalem transforming trash into cash

Rotten tomatoes might actually be responsible for ensuring that Jerusalem’s students have enough classrooms in the coming years.

As the city faces an exponential increase in the cost of trash disposal with the closure of the Abu Dis landfill, it is searching for creative ways to cut down on the amount of trash. A plan to sell recyclable materials to private companies means the boxes of rotten tomatoes at the Mahaneh Yehuda shuk have magically turned from trash into shekels.

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Biogas plant for North East after £8m financing

Left to right: Ian Bainbridge of Agricore; Adam Warren of Warren ABP; Katy Cheung of UNW; Mark Simpson of UNW; and Antony Warren of Warren ABP

A new biogas energy plant is set to make a major contribution to renewable energy production in the North East.

Emerald Biogas has chosen County Durham to locate its anaerobic digestion facility, which will be capable of producing 1.4MW of electricity per annum from food and farm waste.

A corporate finance and tax team from business advisors UNW advised Emerald on the £8m financing deal for the plant, and a team from Ward Hadaway provided legal advice.

Emerald’s directors and shareholders have a solid track record in farming, waste and recycling.

Brothers Antony and Adam Warren already run a successful family-owned animal by-product, food waste collection and recycling business, John Warren (ABP); and Ian Bainbridge owns a diverse farming, land and resources management and plasterboard recycling business called Agricore.

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Usine de biométhanisation: début des travaux en octobre

Rivière-du-Loup - La Société d’économie mixte d’énergie renouvelable de la région de Rivière-du-Loup (SÉMER) annonce aujourd'hui qu'elle construira une usine de transformation des résidus organiques en biocarburant, la première en son genre en Amérique du Nord.

La nouvelle rendue publique jeudi fait suite à l'octroi, par les deux paliers de gouvernement, d'une somme de plus de 15 millions dans un projet évalué à 27,6 M$.


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