Blackborough End: Forget burning waste, how about composting?
A RECYCLING and digestion plant could be built at a landfill site.
The Waste Recycling Group is considering building an “appropriate” recycling and treatment facility at its tip at Blackborough End.
Campaigners fighting against the incinerator planned for the Willows Business Park in Saddlebow have welcomed the proposal.
But Norfolk County Council says that it is “premature” to say if this proposal would make the incinerator “surplus to requirements” but added that more options are needed to deal with the million tonnes of rubbish produced annually.
The council had previously stated that space was running out at the tip.
Staff from the waste group met with the county planners to discuss the proposal.
A statement released by the company says: “Waste Recycling Group is exploring the possibility of developing appropriate waste recycling and treatment facilities at the Blackborough End Landfill Site.
“The facilities, which could include mechanical biological treatment processes (MBT) and anaerobic digestion (AD), would treat a range of residual household, commercial and industrial wastes.
“No thermal treatment processes would be employed in the development.”
The statement continued: “No firm proposals have yet been prepared but the company has had initial discussions with Norfolk’s county planning department, and if the development is pursued it will be subject to submission of a full planning application and associated public consultation.”
The proposal could see waste being sifted through mechanically for recycling and composting under the MBT process.
While food waste would be composted through the AD treatment.
Leading incinerator campaigner Mike Knights would welcome an MBT plant.
He said: “It is very encouraging that a large waste company is interested and prepared to put forward a proposal for an acceptable solution. I hope the county council will seize it if it is an opportunity to choose a technology which is acceptable to people and would save council tax payers a substantial amount of money.”
Cabinet member for environment and waste Bill Borrett said that a million tonnes of waste is created in Norfolk every year and that the Saddlebow plant would take a quarter of that. He said that the council as the waste authority would look on every application in a fair and even handed way.
Cllr Borrett said: “It would be premature to say that any other future proposal from Blackborough End would mean that the incinerator was rendered surplus to requirement.”
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Hugh Montgomery
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 10:50 PMIt would be ideal if other waste landfill sites over Norfolk follow suit. 100% recycling. I expect we will hear Palm Paper is in trouble due to Murdoch’s ongoing problems. News of the world closed down and others will follow. The Power Station will close in two years and Sutton Bridge will be increased in size. Talk of an incinerator at Sutton Bridge! More pollution for Kings Lynn.
Clean Air Voter
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 10:39 PMNCC would not allow this to happen. It is a stupid idea because it does not cause stress and is not harmful to health; it will increase recycling rates and good for the environment. The only way this idea would be viable if a dodgy American Company got involved that has been fined many times for pollution and their parent company fined for fraud.
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