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We are very pleased to announce the merging our Society with the National Land Regeneration Panel to form a major platform for our professional voice in land reclamation and regeneration in the UK. As I am sure you are all aware, the Panel and the Society have worked together for many years, sharing officers, meetings and committee duties and so this is a logical progression, and a very timely one for our membership in what has become a much more multi-discipline and sophisticated process for land regeneration and environmental protection.
There are a number of organisational arrangements we need to complete and to manage this we will be holding joint Committee meetings and will early in the New Year tell you more about how we will be restructuring ourselves and what we are proposing to do and offering our joint membership, and how we will be taking the joint membership forward. We are proposing to make an early announcement in March with a fuller launch later in 2008.
Neil Humphries
Chair
Expressions of Interest sought for the use of quality compost within landscape and regeneration. Do you use or specify the use of compost in landscaping, construction, soil manufacture, regeneration or other projects?
The Landscape and Regeneration team at WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) are currently working with a diverse range of organisations, providing financial support for projects which explore the benefits of Quality BSI PAS100 compost. These include compost use in: rootzones, landscape mulches and top-dressings, in-situ soil manufacture and establishing biomass crops on former landfill. The team are now building on this experience to develop a wider research, demonstration and training programme to explore the benefits of Quality BSI PAS100 compost. This new programme may run throughout the UK from Spring 2008 to Spring 2011, and we would value your input in its development.
Some ideas have been suggested and we are sure there are more. We would welcome your ideas for developing a market for quality compost within the many landscape and regeneration sub-sectors. Projects at all scales -- from general landscaping to large regeneration sites -- might be equally eligible. The current ideas include:
Ideas for the use of green composts as well as composts and anaerobic digestion outputs derived (in part) from source-segregated food wastes would all be welcome.
To enable us to better gauge the level of interest and the potential impact of WRAP support in these areas, we would like to invite your Expressions of Interest. Please provide as much information as possible on the short form which is available on our website (here) before 21st December 2007. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this invitation, please do not hesitate to contact Paul Mathers (Programme Manager: Landscape and Regeneration) at: 01295 817899 / paul.mathers@wrap.org.uk
PERA[1] are working with UKTI Environmental Industries Sector Unit (EISU) [2] in organizing a mission seminar to Taiwan focusing on contaminated land remediation.
The mission is aimed at UK companies, and there is part funding available (depending on the size of the company). The difference between the seminar mission and a trade mission is that UK companies will get the opportunity to present for 20mins to an audience in market of between 40-100 key contacts where they are asked to represent the UK's technological and consultancy capabilities first, and then within that what solutions their companies provide.
We are working with the FCO in organising this event to support UK companies in gaining access to new markets in high growth areas with a view to increasing their export potential. Are you part of such a company? Or are you aware of any companies who fit these criteria?
Are you interested in this opportunity?
We look to take between 5-8 companies. Please see the mission flyer for more detailed information on EISU and the mission itself.
Contact: mirelle.ball@pera.com
EISU
PERA
[1] EISU seminar missions are managed by Pera on behalf of UK Trade & Investment
[2] EISU is part of UK Trade & Investment - the Government organisation that supports companies in the UK doing business internationally and overseas enterprises seeking to set up or expand in the UK.
SOCIETY NEWS: BLRS and NLRP Societies are to Merge
Thu 3rd Jan 2008
There are a number of organisational arrangements we need to complete and to manage this we will be holding joint Committee meetings and will early in the New Year tell you more about how we will be restructuring ourselves and what we are proposing to do and offering our joint membership, and how we will be taking the joint membership forward. We are proposing to make an early announcement in March with a fuller launch later in 2008.
Neil Humphries
Chair
WRAP Tender - Use of Quality Compost in Landscape and Regeneration
Mon 3rd Dec 2007
The Landscape and Regeneration team at WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) are currently working with a diverse range of organisations, providing financial support for projects which explore the benefits of Quality BSI PAS100 compost. These include compost use in: rootzones, landscape mulches and top-dressings, in-situ soil manufacture and establishing biomass crops on former landfill. The team are now building on this experience to develop a wider research, demonstration and training programme to explore the benefits of Quality BSI PAS100 compost. This new programme may run throughout the UK from Spring 2008 to Spring 2011, and we would value your input in its development.
Some ideas have been suggested and we are sure there are more. We would welcome your ideas for developing a market for quality compost within the many landscape and regeneration sub-sectors. Projects at all scales -- from general landscaping to large regeneration sites -- might be equally eligible. The current ideas include:
- Soil manufacture, both on and off site, re-using or recycling resources where possible;
- Use of compost to establish biofuel crops on previously developed land;
- Use of compost within Sustainable Urban Drainage schemes;
- Use of compost within highway maintenance schemes;
- Use of compost for slope stabilisation.
Ideas for the use of green composts as well as composts and anaerobic digestion outputs derived (in part) from source-segregated food wastes would all be welcome.
To enable us to better gauge the level of interest and the potential impact of WRAP support in these areas, we would like to invite your Expressions of Interest. Please provide as much information as possible on the short form which is available on our website (here) before 21st December 2007. If you would like to discuss any aspect of this invitation, please do not hesitate to contact Paul Mathers (Programme Manager: Landscape and Regeneration) at: 01295 817899 / paul.mathers@wrap.org.uk
EISU Mission Seminar on Contaminated Land Remediation - Support for UK Companies
Mon 3rd Dec 2007
The mission is aimed at UK companies, and there is part funding available (depending on the size of the company). The difference between the seminar mission and a trade mission is that UK companies will get the opportunity to present for 20mins to an audience in market of between 40-100 key contacts where they are asked to represent the UK's technological and consultancy capabilities first, and then within that what solutions their companies provide.
We are working with the FCO in organising this event to support UK companies in gaining access to new markets in high growth areas with a view to increasing their export potential. Are you part of such a company? Or are you aware of any companies who fit these criteria?
Are you interested in this opportunity?
We look to take between 5-8 companies. Please see the mission flyer for more detailed information on EISU and the mission itself.
Contact: mirelle.ball@pera.com
EISU
PERA
[1] EISU seminar missions are managed by Pera on behalf of UK Trade & Investment
[2] EISU is part of UK Trade & Investment - the Government organisation that supports companies in the UK doing business internationally and overseas enterprises seeking to set up or expand in the UK.
