Foreword
This month sees some interesting
developments emerging from feedstocks other than wood and crop, and cheese is
one such feedstock. Cheese-making produces whey permeate as a by-product, and
when producers such as Wensleydale Creamery produce 4000 tonnes of cheese every
year, this presents an opportunity for utilisation. The Yorkshire cheese maker
has agreed to supply Iona’s Leeming Biogas plant in North Yorkshire with enough
whey to produce nearly one million cubic meters of green gas, or equivalent to 10,000
MWh of energy per year. Maximising the use of resources and working towards a circular economy is
not only demonstrated by cheese this month. A Tata owned chemical plant in
Cheshire plans to capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon and use it to make sodium
bicarbonate, and government funding of £26 million for nine carbon capture
projects is likely to see..........
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
Markets
- Canfor Pulp temporarily curtails production
- Corn market slows bioethanol production in US
Research & Development
- New feedstocks for raw materials
- Sustainable textile fibres in Finland
- New international conference on cellulose
fibres​
Wood & Crop
- Hemp could create 80,000 jobs in Ireland
- Report into long-term
viability of wood pellet supply chain
- Eucalyptus fibres save water relative to
cotton
- Waste wood plant operational
- Tree planting in Scotland
Other Feedstocks
- Biogas from cheese
- Vegetable oil powers Glastonbury
- Plans to capture 40,000 tonnes of CO2 a year
- Palm oil use in EU
- Tall oil finds use in packaging​
Events
Feedstock Prices