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Waste characterisation provides the cornerstone of waste WRc's Waste and Resource Management business area

strategy development and compliance with regulation. delivers solutions to meet the needs of our clients in the

WRc offers bespoke R&D and consultancy in waste composting, anaerobic digestion, heat treatment, thermal characterisation as well as environmental permit treatment, mechanical treatment, resource recovery and compliance monitoring services. Our in-house waste recycling sectors.laboratories have provided testing and consultancy

The breadth of skills available to support and meet our support to industry and regulators for over 30 years and we

clients' needs are summarised below.have the only laboratory accredited to UKAS for LATs

based biodegradability testing of wastes.

For enquiries about Organic Waste Treatment services please contact Jane TurrellTel: +44 (0) 1793 865176 Email: jane.turrell@wrcplc.co.uk

For further details and information on WRc and its services visit our website www.wrcplc.co.uk.

Organic Waste Treatment

Wasteprevention

Process auditing& troubleshooting

Compositionalanalysis

Greenhousegas emissions

WasteTesting

In-houselaboratories

WasteCharacterisation

Odour &bio-aerosolsmonitoring

Economic &technical evaluation

AnaerobicDigestion

MBT, AD, EfWtreatment

Waste &Resource

Management

Environmental risk &impact assessment

EnvironmentalRisk

Management

Sampling,Surveys & Data

Management

Biogas energy &CHP optimisation

Advanced statisticaltechniques

Sampling

Datamanagement

Surveydesign

Carbonaccounting

Secondaryaggregates

Toxicology

Hazardassessment

Waste stability &biodegradability

Product impactassessment

Local Receptors0 m 5 0m 10 0m

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Waste Testing: WRc has in-house laboratory facilities for performance improvements including: optimising

testing a wide range of mixed and source-segregated operational efficiencies; managing operational risks;

wastes and products (e.g. municipal wastes, prioritising capital maintenance and investment needs;

commercial/industrial wastes, food wastes, composts, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the

sewage sludges, digestates, solid recovered fuels, refuse impacts of climate change. These challenges can be

derived fuels and thermal treatment residues). As the only complex and interlinked and require a depth and breadth

laboratory accredited by UKAS for waste biodegradability of knowledge to identify solutions.

tests for LATs, our accreditation demonstrates the

importance we place on quality. Environmental Risk Management: WRc has expertise in

the assessment of risks to sensitive receptors including air,

Waste and Resource Management: WRc provides surface water, ground water, plant, animal and human

bespoke R&D and innovation to clients in the waste health and has teams experienced in land quality,

treatment and resource recovery sectors. The waste team hydrogeology, human health, REACH and waste

has hands-on experience of designing and conducting management. We adopt a conceptual model approach to

sampling and testing programmes for feedstock and quantifying environmental risks and identifying

treatment residues. We offer compliance monitoring and appropriate mitigation relevant to a product's life cycle.

reporting as well as hazard and risk assessments of

resources throughout their life cycle. We provide technical Sampling, Surveys and Data Management: WRc offer support to ensure sustainable production and our clients a complete testing programme and data management of process wastes, support in resource management service. We can design cost-effective efficiency initiatives and helping clients obtain maximum sampling and testing programmes to ensure that data value from secondary products. produced is fit-for-purpose. Our expertise has been built

over 20 years of managing, conducting and interpreting

Anaerobic Digestion: WRc provides innovative solutions sampling and testing programmes for organic and

to UK and international clients faced with challenges and inorganic materials. The increased complexity of sampling

opportunities for which there are often no "off-the-shelf" and testing programmes, often with large numbers of

solutions. Achieving compliance with regulatory parameters and data generated from a range of tests has

requirements is becoming increasingly demanding and intensified the amount of effort needed to check, collate

WRc provides routine testing and development support to and interpret data from testing programmes. WRc can take

both industry and regulators. WRc can provide a fresh the stress out of data assessment and management for

approach to dealing with issues by the adoption of novel permit compliance monitoring and bespoke analytical

systems and technologies to provide measurable programmes.

For enquiries about Organic Waste Treatment services please contact Jane TurrellTel: +44 (0) 1793 865176 Email: jane.turrell@wrcplc.co.uk

For further details and information on WRc and its services visit our website www.wrcplc.co.uk.