News
New Enviros web site explains ATEX & DSEAR (Atmospheric Explosion Regulations) requirements
21 June 2006
Enviros consultants have created a new web site to assist the waste management industry in coping with the necessary reviews and risk assessments necessary to comply with the ATEX Directive regulations which finally come into force at the end of this month.
Many in the waste industry think that ATEX & DSEAR (UK) compliance means little more than ensuring that a leachate pump is ATEX Certified, when the actual requirements are much broader.
Find out more below:-
ATEX and DSEAR Compliance Information and Resources Web Site
We recommend another very recent ATEX help web site for site managers here.
26 January 2006
Enviros Launches ATEX (DSEAR-UK) Guidance and Site Assessment Service for Explosion Hazards at Waste Management Facilities
The ATEX Directive has been around for many years, but for the first time, as from this summer (30 June), all site workplaces (even those existing when the regulations were brought in during 2003), must comply. See our flyer here, offering an assessment service to all those responsible for complying with the regulations, including those responsible for both open and closed landfills, including leachate treatment facilities. See more information here...
23 January 2006
EA’s PPC Technical (BAT) Guidance for the Treatment of Landfill Leachate is out for consultation
The PPC Technical Guidance for the Treatment of Landfill Leachate has been issued for consultation and responses are due by 31 March 2006. The Environment Agency (UK) want your views on the PPC Technical Guidance for the Treatment of Landfill Leachate. The document is a consultation draft and all are welcome to comment on any aspect.
We recommend that all those with an interest in leachate treatment look in detail at the EA’s published guidance, as we will be doing over the next few weeks. Our initial thoughts have been that some benchmarking criteria appear remarkably stringent when compared with our experience around the world, and the lack of artificial wetland and irrigation/land treatment seems surprising. See the EA’s web site for more... and download the document.
12 January 2006
Scottish Landfill Operator Fined for Illegal Leachate Discharge
Aberdeenshire Council has been fined £2,000 for allowing hazardous liquid waste to discharge from Crow's Nest Landfill site, posing a potential threat to wildlife and the environment. The authority, which operates the landfill site at Banchory, pled guilty to illegally disposing controlled waste - leachate - at Stonehaven Sheriff Court on 14 October. The offence was reported to the procurator fiscal by SEPA after a walker's dog fell into brownish liquid while on land next to the Raemoir Road landfill site. The source was traced to a pump at the site which had been set up to remove liquid from leachate storage ponds and had been left unattended. Source: SEPA View (www.sepa.org.uk)
6 January 2006
Research on the Effects of Landfill Leachate on Biomass Crops
ADAS have undertaken a series of studies on the use of biomass crops on landfill sites for leachate treatment. Their results show crop growth similar to that in agricultural soils with the plants successfully utilising nutrients from the leachate, and not affected by the potentially harmful compounds the leachate. More here ...
For more details and the final report contact ADAS (January 2006)
20 August 2005
Enviros Voted Top Waste Management Consultant
The 2005 Consultants’ Survey in Environment Business Magazine has placed Enviros in top slot for our ‘waste management’ expertise. We quote:
…..’as an aggregate of both customers and consultants, Enviros gets a far more consistent vote as top consultancy in this field.’
The 2005 Edie Net and Environment Business Environmental Consultancy Survey has now been completed with responses from 1557 individuals, 1194 (77%) of whom are Edie Net users and 954 (61%) are readers of Environment Business.
Unlike other surveys, this survey examines the views, opinions and expertise of both consultancy providers themselves and the end users of those consultancies. We feel that this adds value as it shows what customers think about the consultancy providers and the state of the market, rather than an "official" line from one side or the other. Read more at Consultancy Survey 2005: Who is top of the boffins?
Source: www.edie.net
2 August 2005
Lancashire County Council opens New Leachate Treatment Plant
Lancashire County Councillors and executive officers and staff accompanied by the design consultant (Enviros Consulting) and construction contractor (Hytech Water/Phoenix Electrical), formally opened a new £350,000 leachate treatment (methane stripping) plant on Tuesday 19 July. The fully automated plant will ensure compliance with the United Utilities sewer discharge consent, replace two previous plants and will bring reduced operating costs.
The installation was praised as another example of Lancashire County Council's commitment to the environment.
4 February 2005
Enviros applies leachate skills to new landfill for Malaysia
Enviros has commenced work on the leachate treatment plant for the 145 million m3 Bukit Tagar landfill. Download a the Newspaper Article. (You will need Acrobat Reader installed). This is the third Malaysian leachate treatment plant with which Enviros currently has an involvement in Malaysia.
20 November 2004
Leachate Quality Under the Landfill Directive
The Environment Agency has published research undertaken by Enviros under a research contract, entitled: “Improved definition of leachate source term from landfills (review of data from European landfills)”. The report provides a data set of leachate quality from landfill sites that are similar to those that will be developed in the UK following the implementation of the Landfill Directive.
See http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/pdf/SCHO0904BIGD-e-e.pdf
20 October 2004
Enviros Consultant wins award
Howard Robinson, Enviros Technical Director and well known leachate scientist, based in the consultancy’s Shrewsbury office, recently received the biennial President’s Award 2004 from the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa, for exceptional service rendered to the waste management profession in the country.
Howard, who is the only non South African to win the award, was presented with his certificate earlier this month at the Wastecon 2004 conference in Sun City, South Africa.
29 June 2004
Construction Work Commences
on our 3rd Leachate Treatment Plant for WRG Limited
May Gurney has commenced construction work on the new Enviros designed leachate treatment plant for the Winterton Landfilll, South Humberside. This is the third plant that Enviros has worked on with May Gurney for the Waste Recycling Group (WRG), and replaces an interim lagoon based system. The new plant will take the landfill operation on this site forward to become one of a currently anticipated total of only 13 landfill sites in the UK to be permitted for the receipt of hazardous wastes after 16 July 2004. Read more on the May Gurney web site.
22 June 2004
European Pollution Emission Register (EPER) Published
Enviros was engaged with self employed consultant Keith Knox, more than three years ago to assist the EA in providing a simplified method of landfill emissions reporting for the UK. The information Enviros provided was used in the creation of the UK web site used for inputting the data, and which for the past two years has contained sections showing UK Landfill EPER data (especially for leachate emissions). The European Pollution Register (EPER) web site (www.eper.cec.eu.int), which has now been published by the EU, brings together pollution data from the EU nations, and is now providing a single reference point available to all for free, so that all EU citizens can view and compare operators, and nations alike. We already have “the right to know”, and now all of us can exercise that right from our desktops.
28 May 2004
Beneficial Use of Leachate
Enviros has been engaged to report to Cornwall County Council on their landfill leachate irrigation schemes and the continuation of such systems after the introduction of the PPC Regulations and BAT.
News Archive: 2003
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