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Lynn Clarke Press Release Status: Immediate Date: 3 September 2007 Pioneering energy from waste project is on schedule Photo opportunity: New equipment delivery The Resource Recovery Facility, Forest Road Newport ( 20/09) - date and time to be confirmed by phone on 17 Sept Construction work on the Isle of Wight will begin this month to install groundbreaking government-backed technology that creates green energy from waste. A new £8 million gasification plant – the first of its type in the UK – will generate 2.3MW of electricity, enough to power more than 2,000 homes on the island when the project becomes fully operation early next year. Technology provider Energos, which is investing £4 million in the project, will begin to deliver the specialist equipment to site during late September and construction is scheduled for completion before the end of this year. Instead of incinerating waste, gasification converts it into a gas using an advanced two-stage thermal treatment process. The resulting heat energy is used to produce steam, which is then used to generate electricity. Alongside the gasification equipment, investment is being made in the waste processing and recycling equipment at the Isle of Wight Council’s Resource Recovery Facility operated by Biffa subsidiary Island Waste Services, the Isle of Wight Council’s integrated waste management contractor. The new facility will extract recyclable material from waste delivered to the site and residual waste will be processed to provide fuel for the gasification plant. The project is part of Defra’s New Technology Demonstrator Programme, which promotes innovative ways of reducing biodegradable waste sent to landfill. Defra is providing £2.7m to meet 35 per cent of the £8m cost of developing and operating the facility during the first year. The groundbreaking facility is expected to attract visitors from local authorities across the UK and Europe as the drive to develop greener waste processing technology gathers pace. “This project will deliver significant environmental benefits to Isle of Wight residents. It is on course, on budget and on time,” said Tony Grimshaw, Project Director at Energos, which is part of the UK-based ENER-G group. “Local people may notice a temporary increase in heavy traffic as equipment produced at our Norwegian company is delivered. However, when this small scale, local facility is operational it will cut out the need to use heavy vehicles to transport floc fuel to the mainland”. Tony Grimshaw added: “Another benefit of this localised solution is that because the energy will be used on the Island, there will be little wastage during the transmission process.” The plant will generate electricity from 30,000 tonnes of fuel produced from 60,000 tonnes of waste processed through the Isle of Wight Council’s Resource Recovery Facility. “The additional fuel requirements of the new facility will mean that waste currently sent to landfill will be diverted for processing in the new facility” said Bruce Gilmore, General Manager of Island Waste Services. Bruce Gilmore added “This will demonstrate the capability of the technology to divert post-recycling refuse from landfill, therefore extending the life of the landfill site and helping the Isle of Wight Council to meet its Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme targets” There are currently six similar Energos plants operating in Norway and Germany and the technology has a ten year track record with over 280,000 hours of operating experience. Ends Media informationContactsJanet Kilpatrick, email: jk@janetkilpatrick.co.uk, phone: 0161 487 3830, mobile: 07794 192 677; or Dave Chadwick, email: davchadwick@aol.com, phone: 01204 497085, mobile: 07905 859085. Lynn Clarke Community Liaison Officer Island Waste Services 01983 821234 lynn.clarke@biffa.co.uk jk@janetkilpatrick.co.ukENER-G PLC is a UK-owned sustainable energy technology business, providing renewable and energy efficient power generation and management across the globe. The company has helped organisations reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 million tonnes. Ener-g's four key businesses are: Cogeneration – providing efficient on-site generation of electricity, heat and/or cooling Renewable energy – utilising biogas to produce ‘green’ electricity and heat Energy management – offering a complete service from procurement, through to the use of innovative technologies to deliver guaranteed energy savings. Energy from waste – extracting green energy from waste to enable the diversion of waste from landfill. Biffa Waste Services is a leading supplier of waste management solutions in the UK. Island Waste Services has been operating the Isle of Wight Council’s Integrated Waste Management contract since November 1997. The contract runs until 2015. The Isle of Wight Council is the leading Unitary Authority for recycling and composting. Press Release Status: Immediate Date: October 1, 2007 Money grows for trees in Yellow Pages directory recycling campaign Schoolchildren across the Isle of Wight have scored a double jackpot simply by recycling old Yellow Pages directories - winning hundreds of pounds for their schools and raising enough money to plant and care for 70 native trees in England. Thirty seven schools recently took on the Yellow Woods Challenge – the simple, educational and fun environmental campaign for schools run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust – the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity - and Island waste Services. The schools had fun competing against each other, recycling a total of 7,447 old Yellow Pages directories. Godshill Primary School beat off fierce competition, recycling 8.2 old Yellow Pages directories per pupil to take the ‘Gold Oak’ title and win £300. St Wilfrids Primary School has been named the ‘Silver Birch’ winner and receives £200, while Chillerton and Rookley Primary School has been rewarded with £100 and the ‘Bronze Beech’ title. Yellow Pages has also awarded a £100 bonus prize to Godshill Primary School for the most improved performance. Last year Godshill pupils collected an average of 1.2 old directories each, compared to this year’s outstanding effort of 8.2 directories per pupil! Richard Duggleby, head of external relations at Yell – the publisher of Yellow Pages directories, said: “For every pound we award to schools for recycling old Yellow Pages directories, we give a matching pound to the Woodland Trust. Thanks to the recycling efforts of residents and schools on the Isle of Wight, that’s another £700 raised for the Trust.”* The Woodland Trust will use the money to support its ‘Tree For All’ campaign – the most ambitious children’s tree-planting project ever launched in the UK. Janice Hix, corporate partnerships manager with the Woodland Trust, said: “This is a very valuable contribution towards our goal. We’re hoping to raise enough money through the Yellow Woods Challenge this year to plant and care for more than five hectares of native woodland – an area as big as 13 football pitches. “Woodland is England’s richest wildlife habitat and offers benefits for the environment, for people and for communities. Tree planting is really important as we are one of the least wooded countries in Europe.”** The local competition has now closed, but the schools have several more chances to win thousands of pounds in the national competition for their recycling, environmental education, community involvement and sculpture building efforts. Lynn Clarke, community liaison officer with Island Waste Services, added: “This has been a fantastic competition with more than four tonnes of old directories diverted from landfill and recycled into cardboard. I congratulate our schools for their achievements locally and wish them all the best of luck in the national competition.” For more information about the local and national Yellow Woods Challenge competition, please visit www.yellow-woods.co.uk ENDS For media enquiries, please contact Lynn Clarke, Island Waste Services, on 01983 821234 or call Natalie Clark, Woodland Trust, 01476 581112. Notes to editors:Yellow PagesYellow Pages directories are published by Yell, a leading international directories business operating in classified advertising markets in the UK, US, Spain and Latin America. The text paper used for Yellow Pages directories in the UK contains 51% recycled fibre plus wood fibres sourced from sustainably managed forests in Finland. The paper is white and printed with a yellow colour wash. Old Yellow Pages directories can be recycled into cardboard, animal bedding, egg boxes, packaging and insulation materials and newsprint. Yellow Woods ChallengeThe Yellow Woods Challenge is run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust and up to 100 local authorities across the UK. The 2007 Challenge aims to involve at least 2,000 schools and 400,000 schoolchildren. The campaign aims to recycle old Yellow Pages directories and save landfill; educate children about the environment and support the Woodland Trust's ‘Tree For All’ tree planting campaign. Schools collecting the most Yellow Pages directories per pupil win cash prizes. Locally, £700 will be shared by winning schools. Nationally, a prize fund of £12,250 will reward recycling, community involvement, education in action and sculpture building. For every pound Yellow Pages awards to schools in cash prizes, a matching pound is given to the Woodland Trust. For further details, visit: www.yellow-woods.co.uk, email: yellow.woods@yellgroup.com or call 0118 950 6724. Woodland TrustThe Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. It has 300,000 members and supporters. The Trust has four key aims: i) No further loss of ancient woodland; ii) Restoring and improving the biodiversity of woods; iii) Increasing new native woodland; iv) Increasing people’s understanding and enjoyment of woodland. Established in 1972, the Woodland Trust now has over 1,000 sites in its care covering approximately 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres). Access to its sites is free. Further news can be found at www.woodland-trust.org.uk/yell *The Woodland Trust's ‘Tree For All’ campaign grew from a simple vision - that every child should have the chance to plant trees. The most ambitious children's tree-planting project ever launched in the UK, it will help plant 12 million trees giving one million children the chance to make a positive difference. For further details, visit: www.treeforall.org.uk For media enquiries contact: Natalie Clark, corporate, PR & communications officer on 01476 581112, email natalieclark@woodland-trust.org.uk or the Woodland Trust Press Office on 01476 581121, e-mail media@woodland-trust.org.uk **Woodland/forestry cover in Europe
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