Leap Anaerobic Digestion

LEAP – Local Energy ADventure Partnership – is a cross-sector partnership seeking to support urban food waste management through the development of small-scale anaerobic digestion. The partnership was first funded by the London Borough of Camden in 2012, and has since been supported by the Technology Strategy Board and WRAP.

LEAP includes:

• The Community Composting Network – instrumental in the development of micro AD in the UK since 2008,
• Methanogen UK Ltd – 35 years experience in digester design and engineering from large to small scales, founder, James Murcott’s digesters have a combined operational lifespan of 400 years.
• Guy Blanch – research engineer for Alvan Blanch – manufacturing experts in materials handling including pasteurisation, maceration and liquid/solid separation,
• Musetopia Enterprises Ltd – assessing the adoption of sustainable commerce over the past 10 years, including biomass, high altitude wind harvesting, pyrolysis, rainforest bond instruments and resource-based pricing.
• Community by Design – Camden-based community organisation dedicated to a vision of sustainability and community wellbeing.

LEAP’s extended partnership for the WRAP demonstration project also included:

• Mark Walker and Davide Poggio – PhD researchers from Leeds University – currently working on a parallel, multi-University, control focused community-scale microgeneration project – BURD (Bridging the Urban Rural Divide),
• Dr David Neylan and the Bridport Renewable Energy Group, currently developing a low-cost, DIY digester made from easily obtainable components,
• Aleka Designs – specialists in electronics design, prototyping and commercialisation.