By Michelle Knott - this article was originally
published in Food Manufacture magazine
As an array of emerging
technologies line up for the renewable energy bandwagon, how
viable is waste-to-energy? Michelle Knott reports
Everyone has been banging on ad
nauseam about how landfill tax will affect the behaviour of
businesses, but there are good reasons to think that the next
couple of years will finally see one of the food
industry's most viable waste-handling alternatives take
off in a big way. According to those in the industry,
waste-to-energy projects will soon be cropping up all over the
place.
Of course, landfill tax remains
one of the big drivers, especially after then-Chancellor Gordon
Brown upped the stakes in last year's budget by
flagging up this April's tax hike from £24 to
£32 per tonne. But the landfill price rise issue has now
been joined by other factors.
