Albion Environmental News

We can all throw our money away buying unnecessary items; however, some people are quite literally throwing their money away. Albion Environmental staff who were conducting compositional waste analyses began to discover a number of coins within the residual waste stream and decided to start monitoring. Data was collected over the past year in various

J – Journey (waste journey) Waste and recyclable materials are produced as a part of our daily life. These materials can be produced through manufacture/production of the things we consume and, by us as a result of our individual actions.  Ensuring that the resulting materials are managed and tracked effectively is becoming ever more important as

I      Incineration Incineration is the thermal treatment process in which waste is burned in order to recover energy. The process usually involves the combustion of unprepared Municipal Solid Waste. Incineration plant temperatures are typically in excess of 850 degrees Celsius, and require enough oxygen to sufficiently oxidise the waste.  The main products of this process

H  HEIRARCHY – The Waste Hierarchy The Waste Hierarchy is a sustainable waste management model that promotes consideration into how and why waste is created rather than just thinking about the disposal and management of waste. It categorises the various options for dealing with waste into an order of preference into a simple five-step hierarchy.

G      GASIFICATION Gasification is a thermal process that transforms carbon-based material such as Municipal Solid Waste or biomass into energy.  Gasification does not burn the material, but rather converts the waste materials into gas through a chemical reaction. Small amounts of air and oxygen are reacted in a gasifier with the carbon-based material, or “feedstock”, which