RockTron Wins Rushlight Award
Recycling technology company RockTron beat internationally renowned entrants to win Rushlight’s fossil fuels award on 28 January. The award was reportedly presented in recognition of the company’ s “spectacular leap forward in Fly Ash Recycling.” This technology, says RockTron, has the potential to help cut man-made CO2 emissions by up to 2 per cent whilst reducing the need for fossil fuel usage. The Award recognises technological advancement or innovation that has made a significant contribution to the reduction in environmental impact of fossil fuel usage.
RockTron was also shortlisted for the Rushlight Energy Environmental Award for outstanding contribution to green energy across all award entries. The Rushlight Awards celebrate the leading energy, resource and environmental technologies of Britain and Ireland, and were held this year at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
The company’s award winning technology is unique in that it processes both fresh and stockpiled coal-fired power station waste. And according to RockTron representatives, the waste (fly ash) is transformed it into 100 per cent recycled eco-minerals with no waste or effluent.
RockTron’s eco-minerals are said to offer new industrial applications, serving as functional fillers in rubbers and plastics for tyre manufacturing and electronics. Furthermore, RockTron’s process extracts pure carbon from the fly ash, giving this back to the power station, returning more energy to the national grid than it consumes.
According to a press release issued following the Rushlight award, RockTron’s new process can “green the supply chain and help the UK government meet its commitment to cut carbon emissions by at least 26 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050.” The company estimates that for every 500,000 tonnes of RockTron products used, 400,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions can be saved. This equates to 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions saved during the lifetime of every plant using the technology over 25 years.
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