Broken Link Repair – Updated and Repaired Link to the Wikipedia Article Citation (Reference 6: “Demonstrator Projects Now Signed” on the page devoted to the UK (Defra) New Technologies Demonstrator Programme)
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If you have arrived from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Technologies_Demonstrator_Programme#The_scheme) the quick link to an updated copy of that original article cited is available on the MRW website here.
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The article to which we have provided the link above, was published originally 24 November 2006, and the version now available was updated on 26 April 2010 8:09 am by Andrea Lockerbie. To preserve the meaning of the article and protect loss of this information in the event of MRW unpublishing this historic material in the future, we are of course unable to provide the exact article here due to copyright, however, we have summarised the article in our own words, as follows:
All Waste Technologies Demonstrator Projects Now Signed

“If we can get as many of the demonstrators running by 2009 then we have actually attained our objective of getting them in place before the 2010 targets;”
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It was a very progressive move for the UK government to spend money in the demonstrator programme to help a struggling technological improvement take place. This is a good model for other governments to copy, when technology needs to be developed for the national and global good. Has it been done since in other countries?
Hello there! Do you know if any of the original plants are still working? If they have shut-down did the funding achieve a good result?
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