A WEE COUNTY social enterprise is ready to revolutionise the waste industry throughout Europe as part of a pioneering multi-million pound international partnership.
Using innovative BioRegen technology, Alloa’s ACE Recycling is on the verge of launching three ground-breaking trials, diverting a minimum of 60,000 tonnes of food waste from landfill, developing a cost effective recycling programme for rural economies and benefiting the country’s industries.
The on-site recycling solution involves specially-cultivated naturally-occurring microbes that can create commercially valuable bio-refined products, which can be used in topsoil production, as fertiliser in agri- and horticulture and in the industrial and domestic cleaning markets in place of fossil fuels and other mineral based materials.

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Malcolm McArdle, managing director at Alloa Community Enterprises (ACE) Limited, said: “Scotland is driving decarbonisation of our economy more quickly than most developing nations.
“Previous trials, to test the process and establish the market potential, clearly demonstrated there is a viable circular economy alternative for food recycling.
“The Phase 2 trials will clear the way to enable the creation of a world beating bio-refining enterprise that will significantly change how we manage organic waste and our land.”
In return for a £2million investment, ACE has secured a 10-year-deal, worth a minimum £1 million per year in revenues for the first three years and up to £10million after that, with Australian company VRM Global Holdings Pty Ltd – the organisation behind the BioRegen technology.
It is estimated the project will create around 24 new jobs in Clackmannanshire in the first three years and up to 140 across the country in the next decade.
Local MSP Keith Brown recently paid a visit to ACE to hear about the project and wished them the very best.

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He said: “ACE has had a strong presence in Clackmannanshire for over 30 years and has pioneered many forms of recycling during that time. Their latest innovative project has the potential to have a very positive impact on the food waste industry as well as create local employment opportunities.”