Spanish waste companies visit PyroPure

Representatives of two Spanish waste treatment companies have paid a visit to the UK to see new waste technology developed by the Hampshire engineering company Morgan Everett. Fransisco and Eduardo Blanes from CEC Residuos in Valencia, and Luís Pardo and Marcos de la Fuente from Gestán in Galicia, visited three sets of facilities to see the breakthrough 'PyroPure^®' technology. The facilities were also viewed by Jose Angel Marrero Socorro, who is responsible for waste management in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria. Accompanying the visitors, along with Morgan Everett's UK staff, was Agustín López from the company's Spanish distributor, 'Sinergia'.

The party viewed the PyroPure^® technology recently installed in the Sustainability Centre, near East Meon in Hampshire. This Centre, which practices environmentally sustainable methods and recently hosted the Hampshire Green Fair, already recycles and composts much of its waste. PyroPure^® is a complementary approach, enabling the remaining, non-recyclable waste to be handled in a way that does not harm the environment.

Instead of this waste being collected and transported to a landfill, the PyroPure^® system destroys it on site, leaving nothing to be collected. All that remains from a full waste load is a handful of ash that is flushed into the drain which leads to a treatment plant also within the Sustainability Centre.

The visitors also viewed the Morgan Everett laboratory facilities, where the product has been developed and tested. In addition, they travelled to the London Borough of Wandsworth to view the waste handling system installed in the basement of a 14 storey apartment block to feed waste from a chute into waiting PyroPure^® units: this forms part of a trial of the technology for municipal waste.

The visitors were all enthused by what they saw and are keen to try out the technology in Spain, as their country is facing similar problems to the UK in terms of escalating costs of waste disposal and lack of available landfill space.