And let's not forget all the industrial effluents that enter sewers via a Trade Effluent Consent, let alone all the stuff that washed off the roads.....
I live in a 'village' south of Leicester. We've been here 9 years and they've built about 650 new houses in that time.
The funny thing is that there are hardly any kids queuing for the school buses, I appreciate that many may be taken in parents cars, but there still don't seem to be heaps of...
Not sure of specific sites, but a contact in the industry remarked that the landspreading route is becoming seen increasingly as too risky by the utility sector.
There is a cost to removing the option, but currently we may be transferring that cost to the environment. Treated sludge is a great...
Pretty much my thoughts. net migration is falling, lifespan is declining and birth rate is falling. So why all the new houses? Anecdotally I'm starting to hear of new houses struggling to find buyers and with increases in inflation, energy costs and interest rates I feel it's time that they...
The utility companies are looking at alternatives to landspreading in any case. I don't think incineration will be involved but other methods like gasification/pyrolysis would make more sense.
I absolutley agree with this.
Here's a few nuggets I've gleaned recently;
MANNER is accurate to +/- 20 kg/ha
A crop of winter wheat will release up to 60kg/ha Nitrate-N when harvested.
The 5kg/ha figure is that which leaches out of old FYM. Nothing more, nothing less and not indicative of at...
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