Cropgen - AD project

>> Keeping plastics out of compost and AD

REA and ADBA have published a joint position paper on keeping plastics out of digestates and composts. The paper details the various measures taken to ensure that compost and digestate meet the quality requirements.

>> REA meet with Waste and Resource Strategy team at Defra

The REA policy team met with the Defra Waste and Resource Strategy team, where they highlighted the potential of Organics Recycling, Food waste collections, Biogas, landfill gas and Energy from Waste.

>> National Infrastructure Commission supportive of separate food waste collections

NIC support mandatory food waste collections by 2025.

The REA is delighted to see that the recent NIC Assessment recommends that there are separate food waste collections for all by 2025 and that Government set a recycling target of 65% for municipal waste and 75% for plastic packaging by 2030.

>> REA sign up to Plastic Pact

The REA has formally signed up to the Plastics Pact, a collaborative initiative to drive circularity of plastic packaging, deliver a step change in driving best practice, stimulating innovation to unlock barriers and engage with citizens.

>> Fatalities in Waste and Resources sector remain high

Fatalities within the Waste and resources sector is 16 times higher than the average of all other industries

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CROPGEN

CROPGEN was a research project funded by the EU's 6th Framework Programme, involving 11 partners in 6 European countries. The concept was based on the use of anaerobic digestion (AD) as a means of producing methane from biomass, including energy crops and agricultural residues. The technology of biochemical methane generation is well established: the research determined how the technology could best be applied to provide a versatile, low-cost, carbon-neutral biofuel in an environmentally sound and sustainable agricultural framework.

The project finished in July 2007.

Project outcomes:

Renewable energy from crops and agrowastes

Digestion and codigestion mass balance for different operative conditions and process configurations for oily crops and agricultural market wastes

Life cycle energy balances on a number of crop species

Database on the methane production potential from mixed digestion

Optimal pre-treatment methods to increase methane yields under various conditions

Standardised test procedures for assessing kinetic constants and evaluating reaction rates

Optimal storage systems for energy crops for various climatic conditions

Cost-benefit analysis to determine whether farm energy production can lead to measurable advantages in the longer term productivity cycle

Assessment of the potential for crop-derived biogas as an energy source in the EU, taking into account technical and environmental issues and socio-economic impact