{"id":125764,"date":"2025-09-09T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125764\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:34:12","slug":"two-south-coast-firms-unite-to-turn-food-waste-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125764\/","title":{"rendered":"Two south coast firms unite to turn food waste into energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Hampshire&#8217;s TJ Waste &amp; Recycling and Dorset&#8217;s Eco Sustainable Solutions have launched a partnership to increase green power production.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Eco will provide a food waste transfer point at TJ\u2019s materials recovery facility in Yapton, West Sussex.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Third-party waste collection organisations can drop off food waste at the site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  TJ\u2019s trucks will then transport this waste to Eco\u2019s anaerobic digestion plant in Parley, near Bournemouth Airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This facility, which can handle more than 50,000 tonnes of food waste each year, generates around 60 GWh of biomethane, meeting the energy needs of 5,300 medium-sized homes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Luke Haskell, a director at TJ Waste &amp; Recycling, said: &#8220;TJ\u2019s partnership with Eco will help increase the amount of green power generated by food waste here on the South Coast.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new initiative is driven by the Simpler Recycling legislation (Environment Act 2020), which mandates a timeline for the segregation of food waste for eligible businesses and households, effective from April this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Peter Hardy, Eco\u2019s Sales Director, said: &#8220;Efficient food waste recycling can deliver huge benefits for businesses, the local environment and long-term sustainability.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We\u2019re pleased to be working with TJ on this initiative, offering a much-needed new service on the South Coast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire&#8217;s TJ Waste &amp; Recycling and Dorset&#8217;s Eco Sustainable Solutions have launched a partnership to increase green power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-125764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}