WASTE RECYCLING BY SAMUEL McKEOWN
Dive expert emerges as ocean plastics saviour
ADVETEC Group are based near Midsomer Norton and specialise in the treatment and reduction of solid and liquid organic waste, with a view to tackling the Earth’s plastic ocean problem.
Leading Advetec’s fi ght against plastic is former underwater explorer, Group CEO Craig Shaw (above), who has 35 years’ experience of diving in the world’s oceans and is an expert on the eff ects mass waste is having.
The man who began his career in oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, Arabian Gulf, and the Gulf of Mexico, Craig admitted: “Our ethos is all waste is a resource worth harvesting.
“With 100 years’ worth of plastic garbage fl oating around our oceans, we have a responsibility to deal with it.
“Just removing plastic from the sea, then dumping it into the ground is not a solution. Hence Advetec’s Circular Solution: collect it, process it and reuse it.”
With £600,000 investment in new laboratories and staff to test and treat new waste streams, Advetec are tackling the plastic problem head on.
Craig continued: “We started by developing our Advetec XO reactor (an on-site plant reducing waste by 60-90% within 24-72 hours). This adds R&D into plastic degradation, to bring us closer to fi nding a solution to deal with plastics and save oceans - a cause close to my heart.”
Diver Craig has dived to 199 metres and also descended 3500 metres in a submarine. During this time, he saw evidence of plastic ocean waste in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and off Newfoundland.
Advetec’s £600,000 investment in operations and facilities allows the company to specialise in analysing a company’s waste streams to establish the calorifi c (kg/k) or nutritional value (NPK) of their output material.
Their services are used by a growing number of UK and International customers in food processing, utilities, transport, hospitality and manufacturing, who all use Advetec digester technology.
A new purpose-built laboratory will allow the company to test and trial pre/post-treatment liquid and solid organic waste streams, to ensure optimal digester performance.
Advetec guarantee to reduce a company’s performance in reducing liquid and solid waste by 70-90% by volume, and treat any emissions from specifi c waste streams.
During his time as a deep-sea diver, Craig has helped raise the Mary Rose and the Herald of Free Enterprise. He previously built equipment for The Edinburgh Salvage Mission, and was business development manager for PADI international for six years.
Well-travelled Craig also lived in Bermuda, where he was MD of a dive company off ering tourist trips to the sunken vessels Titanic, Hood and Bismarck.
38 SHM May, 2018
www.skiphiremagazine.co.uk
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