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Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes <strong>to</strong> Wastes and Energy<br />
AEA/ED45551/Issue 1<br />
Table 50 MBT Plants in <strong>the</strong> UK 166<br />
Name and Location Volume Operational<br />
Bursom Industrial Estate<br />
MBT plant in Leicester<br />
150,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a.<br />
The organic fraction is processed<br />
with AD (at Wanlip, see later)<br />
2004<br />
New Earth Solutions in<br />
Poole, Dorset<br />
50,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a.<br />
The organic fraction is<br />
composted, producing 9000<br />
<strong>to</strong>nnes/yr.<br />
2006<br />
Frog Island, Rainham,<br />
Shanks Group Plc, East<br />
180,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a.<br />
2006<br />
London Waste Authority The material bio-dried before<br />
being biologically treated and<br />
sorted. After removal of glass,<br />
metals and aggregates <strong>the</strong><br />
remainder is used as SRF.<br />
Jenkins Lane, Newham,<br />
East London Waste<br />
180,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a.<br />
2007<br />
Authority, Shanks Group The process requires bio-drying<br />
Plc<br />
before materials are refined for<br />
energy recovery.<br />
Earth Tech in S<strong>to</strong>rnoway,<br />
Western Isles<br />
21,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a.,<br />
Uses AD for <strong>the</strong> source separated<br />
waste and composting for <strong>the</strong><br />
residual waste (see later)<br />
2006<br />
Civic Environmental<br />
Systems in<br />
37,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a.<br />
2003<br />
Durham<br />
Commercial development scale<br />
Elling<strong>to</strong>n,<br />
40,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a. of fine, pre- 2006<br />
Northumberland graded material<br />
Shanks Ecodeco plant in<br />
Dumfries and Galloway<br />
60,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes p.a. 2006<br />
At least six MBT plants are currently under construction or have planning permission al<strong>read</strong>y granted:<br />
• A site that will be operational within a few months is <strong>the</strong> 250,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes/yr site at Waterbeach in<br />
Cambridgeshire. Alongside this <strong>the</strong> composting capacity of <strong>the</strong> facility will double <strong>to</strong> 100,000<br />
<strong>to</strong>nnes/yr. 167<br />
• Two sites in Lancashire are under construction, one in Leyland near Pres<strong>to</strong>n, <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r at<br />
Thorn<strong>to</strong>n near Blackpool. These will use <strong>the</strong> Global Technology (3R-UR) process and have a<br />
combined capacity of over 300,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes per annum of household waste.<br />
• Southwark MBT plant, intended <strong>to</strong> process 87,500 <strong>to</strong>nnes per annum and <strong>to</strong> be operational <strong>by</strong><br />
2011. The site will produce SRF (solid recovered fuel) <strong>to</strong> be burnt at <strong>the</strong> near<strong>by</strong> SELCHP EfW<br />
plant in Lewisham. 168<br />
• A site near Colchester, Essex has been granted permission for throughput of 250,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes per<br />
annum, with an attached AD plant capable of handling 50,000 <strong>to</strong>nnes/yr. 169<br />
166<br />
Mechanical Biological Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste, 2007, Defra Brief, http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/wip/newtech/pdf/mbt.pdf<br />
167<br />
ENDS Report, 389, June 2007, p.17,<br />
http://www.ends<strong>report</strong>.com/index.cfm?action=<strong>report</strong>.article&articleID=17363&q=MBT%20plants&boolean_mode=all<br />
168<br />
ENDS Report 397, Feb 2008, p.17,<br />
http://www.ends<strong>report</strong>.com/index.cfm?action=<strong>report</strong>.article&articleID=18636&q=MBT%20plants&boolean_mode=all