£10m fund opens to support new AD development in England

The Anaerobic Digestion Loan Fund (ADLF) is a £10m fund designed to support the development of new AD capacity in England. The fund aims to support 300,000 tonnes of annual capacity to divert food waste from landfill by 2015.

The ADLF will offer direct financial support to organisations that are interested in building AD capacity in England in order to provide digestate of sufficient quality for a variety of UK markets and to generate renewable energy in the form of biogas through the diversion of food and other organic resources.

The ADLF also aims to ensure that the material is diverted from landfill or from other, less environmentally sustainable operations, up the waste hierarchy.

If you have a project to develop AD processing capacity and are finding it difficult to obtain asset finance from the usual commercial sources, WRAP may be able to help.

For more information, please visit www.wrap.org.uk/farming_growing_and_landscaping/ad_loan_fund.html