The company boasts that no other site in the UK can offer the range of treatment options it will be able to provide once it completes its latest project – a £16M anaerobic digestion (AD) plant and biomass boiler.
The biomass boiler will generate heat for use in on-site glasshouses from a variety of wood and biomass wastes generated from external and internal sources.
The site already houses an in-vessel composting facility, a dry recycling transfer station, a water treatment plant, with further concrete areas for windrow composting and a dry recycling facility.
Organic Recycling’s Andrew Riddington said: “We will now be able to handle 150,000 tonnes of waste at the 52-acre site. It also means that we will be able to produce enough power from a renewable resource for over 1,400 homes.
“A single location able to handle multiple waste streams will mean significant cost savings for local authorities and businesses in the region which have a variety of waste to dispose of that currently must be sent to different locations.”
Maxine Perella