New environmentally friendly system to deal with waste installed

H2Ology, recent winners of Scotland’s prestigious environmental Vibes Award has just completed the installation of its ATS-TARP-Static to receive and treat road gully and sweepings waste for Highland Council at their Lotland Street road’s depot in Inverness.

Due to current environmental legislation, liquid waste such as this cannot be taken anymore to landfill sites.

Iain Robinson, Founding Director of H2Ology said that “we recognised this was becoming a major issue to all Councils throughout the country and designed this plant as an extension to our patented ATS (Advanced Treatment Station).”

The ATS-TARP dewaters this waste which is then treated through the ATS which is then clean enough to be recycled back into the gully trucks and road sweepers for their next operations.

The dried waste is then suitable to be taken to landfill site as non-hazardous waste or is further recycled through our ATS-TARP+ plant which successfully recovers the sand and aggregates from the waste.

Recent controlled trials established that it is possible to recycle 98% of this waste, which saves enormously on landfill costs.

As an add on to the ATS-TARP-Static at Lotland Street, a vehicle wash-bay was added to the system which also allows for the water to be recycled. 
The footprint of the ATS-TARP is small, therefore it makes it suitable to be positioned in a council’s roads depot, which maximise efficiency of working and ultimately brings down the councils operating costs.

Richard Guest, The Highland Council’s Head of Roads and Community Works said:  “We are delighted that H2Ology have developed a system which will not only cut down on the amount of our waste going to landfill but will also reduce our operating costs.  This very much reinforces the Council’s commitment to cut our carbon footprint and increase the amount of waste we recycle.”