Rokiah Yaman, LEAP

1. THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL AD –
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND
PLANNING
#UKADBiogas @adbioresources
PANEL:
JOHN QUINTON-BARBER, SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
MANDY STOKER, E4ENVIRONMENT
JAMIE GORDON, REMARKABLE GROUP
ROKIAH YAMAN, COMMUNITY BY DESIGN

2. Micro AD
Building the circular economy from the ground up

3. Pilot plant: Camley Street Natural Park

4. Micro AD for the urban environment
Where there the greatest volume of food waste
and the largest demand for food and
employment coincide

5. Engaging the public:
A local approach to managing
waste, energy and food

6. SMEs
Social housing flats
Universities Hospitals Municipal parks
Community food growing enterprises
Temporary use buildings Food manufacturers
Off-grid communities New developments
Peri-urban farms

7. Environmental benefits
• Diverting food waste from landfill and
incineration reduces GHGs
• Reduced waste transport lowers emissions,
• Baseload renewable gas, complements other
renewables
• Recovered nutrients replaces artificial
fertilisers

8. Closed-loop community enterprise opportunities
• Food waste collection service
• Operation and maintenance
• Low-cost electronics
• Integration with intensive urban agriculture
Therapeutic horticulture activities
Training and skills sharing
Community café
Catering training
Nutrition workshops
Food processing + added value products

9. Engaging schools

11. Biogas bus during WW2 in Scotland

12. AD today

13. Biogas and
liquid fertiliser

14. Urban closed-loop cycles

15. Mini digesters

17. • Designing an accredited micro AD training programme
• Teach assembly, operational and maintenance skills
• Establish an open source platform – to accelerate
global collaborative R&D and drive costs down
• Give people the tools to create the organic circular
economy from the ground up!
Training and development opportunities

18. Life cycle analysis and pilot plant assessment
Optimising the AD process
Maximising local use of digestate – developing
low-cost growing infrastructure
Low-cost filtration for hydroponics etc.
Added value products from surplus digestate
Low-cost upgrading to biomethane
University challenges!

19. 07864 002189
02088 886293
leap@communitybydesign.co.uk
www.communitybydesign.co.uk/leap
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Rokiah Yaman

20. THE BENEFITS OF LOCAL AD –
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND
PLANNING
#UKADBiogas @adbioresources
PANEL:
JOHN QUINTON-BARBER, SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
MANDY STOKER, E4ENVIRONMENT
JAMIE GORDON, REMARKABLE GROUP
ROKIAH YAMAN, COMMUNITY BY DESIGN