European Biowaste Market is Growing ‘Significantly’
Environmental consultant ecoprog said it expects about 8.1 million annual tonnes of additional capacity to be built for the fermentation of municipal biowaste by 2030. AD (anaerobic digestion) capacities for treating commercial biowaste will be developed as well. The main reasons for this growth are EU regulations stipulating a separate biowaste collection from 2024 onwards as well as the booming biomethane market.
Today, there are approximately 960 active biowaste AD plants in Europe. These are biogas plants that mainly treat organic waste from household collection schemes and from commercial sources. The latter particularly includes companies from the food and feed industries, from restaurants or trade.