Everyone has been banging on ad nauseam about how landfill tax will affect the behaviour of businesses, but there are good reasons to think that the next couple of years will finally see one of the food industry's most viable waste-handling alternatives take off in a big way. According to those in the industry, waste-to-energy projects will soon be cropping up all over the place.

Micromac Filtration, the independent industrial effluent treatment specialist, has upgraded the effluent treatment system at Launceston-based Kensey Foods.

Eriks UK has helped Coors brewery in Burton to save a potential £60,000 a year in energy costs.

Ingredients specialist Beacon Foods is fully committed to reducing its carbon footprint and at the same time saving money. The producer of roasted and char-grilled vegetables and fruit, relishes, chutneys and compotes has invested in new equipment to improve its operations.

Many waste water streams, even after primary treatment, contain small suspended solids that make the stream turbid.

Some board directors believe 'greening your business' costs money. The more enlightened, however, know that it makes good business sense. And that is exactly what the Food Environmental Efficiency day (FEED) held last month at the University of Nottingham and sponsored by Food Manufacture set out to prove.