Earth Tech Secures $35 Million Of New Work In UK Waste Sector

South Yorkshire, UK — Earth Tech UK has secured over $35 million of new work in the UK Waste Sector with the award of two major contracts for Severn Trent's EU Waste Incineration Directive (WID) work and the Western Isles Council for the design and build of two new solid waste treatment facilities.

Severn Trent have invested over $16 million with ETUK in the refurbishment of their two sewage sludge incineration plants at Coleshill and Roundhill near Birmingham, UK. Earth Tech's Waste Services Team will complete the work to modify and upgrade the existing sludge incinerators to comply with the stringent European Union WID emissions limits by the end of 2005. Further work will then be undertaken in 2006 to improve the plant's operational capabilities.

Meanwhile off the NW coast of Scotland, the Western Isles Council has embarked on the building of $18 million of new integrated waste treatment facilities, to deal with the recycling and recovery of household waste collected throughout the Isles. Earth Tech, in conjunction with its technology partners Linde and Hot-Rot will deliver the facilities located on the islands of Lewis and Benbecula. The project is scheduled for completion by the middle of 2006. The facilities have been designed specifically to deal with the unique problems associated with remote island communities, and include recycling, in-vessel composting and the UK's first commercial scale anaerobic digestion facility for source-separated biowaste, with the Biogas then used to generate "green" electrical power for export to local grid.

SOURCE: Earth Tech