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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Friday 18th November 2011)

Shift Soil Ready to Clean Up with the WFD

London - 18 November 2011Today, Shift Soil Remediation LLP (www.shiftsoil.co.uk)

announced the arrival of the UKs first truly mobile soil remediation equipment to the

booming waste management industry. Shift Soils specialist self-propelled mobile soil

cleaning technology offers unrivalled options for site management and remediation. With a

treatment capability of over 200 contaminates of soil the firm hopes to clean, on-site, theUKs backlog of contaminated brownfield sites and divert soil waste from hazardous waste

landfills. On-site treatment offers developers additional saving on clean soil backfill.

Set to change the traditional way of thinking in the land remediation industry Daryn Short

(Director of Shift Soil Remediation LLP) had this to say about bringing the technology to

London: "Innovation is at the core of Shift Soil, and I look forward to working with our

talented team and partners as we strive to develop the industry's most compelling set of

solutions and services in the UK and markets around the world," further adding "We are

working in lock step with the developer community, our partners and the start-up community

to create an application ecosystem that delivers on Shift Soils rapid mobile strategy."

Prevention is better than cure, and cure is better than treatment. Re-use is often good but

mindful consumption is best. We need to move from waste management to resource

recovery. Good regulation and the correct market incentives help us to appropriately address

the vast backlog of environmental contamination. said Phil Kneebone (Director, Shift Soil

Remediation LLP) on the arrival of the new soil cleaning machine.

It has been the regulatory EU Waste Framework Directive (WFD) that has led to the current

growth of the market, particularly due to the rising landfill taxes with a standard rate charge

per tonne of 56 in 2011 and 64 in 2012. This is a full blown war on waste and an attack at

the prevalence of landfilling as the preferred solution of the past.

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About Shift Soil Remediation

First registered in 2009, the aim of the partnership was to specifically introduce new

technology to the land remediation industry. Based in London, United Kingdom, they are

prepared for both national and international deployment. Shift Soil specialises in mobile

solutions for the remediation of hydro-carbons in the environment. Their enhanced

bioremediation solution reduces time of remediation too about 2-3 weeks.

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Contact Information: For any queries on this Press Release, please contact Daryn Short at

daryn@shiftsoil.co.uk or call +44 (0) 78665 02885

Address: Brunel Science Park, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, London, UB8 3PQ

Website:www.shiftsoil.co.uk

Editors Note:

The sectors growth has been supported by the 3 year old EU Waste Framework Directive

(2008/98/EC) signed on 19 November 2008. The Directive entered into force on 12

December 2008 and gave member states 2 years to comply.

The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) has been implemented in England and Wales

through the Waste Regulations 2011 (England and Wales) and ancillary legislation in Wales,

which were both introduced in April 2011. The WFD is bolstered by the older Landfill of

Waste Directive (99/31/EC).

The WFD establishes major principles such as an obligation to handle waste in a way that

does not have a negative impact on the environment or human health and as an

encouragement to apply the waste hierarchy of: prevention; preparing for re-use; recycling;

other recovery (for example, energy recovery) and finally disposal.

The Waste Framework Directive further establishes, in accordance with the polluter-pays

principle, a requirement that the costs of disposing of waste must be borne either by theholder of waste or previous holders or by the producers of the product from which the waste

came.

What this all boils down to, in terms of incentivising the UK market to make the correct

choice with waste, is a landfill tax standard rate charge per tonne of 56 in 2011 and 64 in

2012. While these rates apply to hazardous soil waste, inert soil can be disposed of at the

lower rate of 2.50 per tonne. By the 1 April 2014 this rate is set to be 80 per tonne of

standard waste.

Keywords

Soil, Remediation, environment, clean-up, land, waste, WFD, toxic, pollution

Summary

3 years after Waste Framework Directive (WFD) came in; it is supporting businesses like Shift Soil

Remediation by having a landfill tax standard rate charge per tonne 64 in 2012. While these rates

apply to hazardous soil waste, inert soil can be disposed of at the lower rate of 2.50 per tonne. The

market is moving from waste management to resource recovery.

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