The company is planning to build a 100,000 tonne per annum waste management and recycling centre for Herefordshire county council. But a high court ruling in February determined that the county council had not taken into account the potential significance of the facilities emissions (see letsrecycle.com story).
” The emissions issue has been fully addressed by the RES, which includes details about how the recycling centre works “
– Estech Europe
The company submitted the revised environmental statement to the council in support of its plans for the Madley site on Friday October 21.
Norman Large, spokesman for Estech said: “The emissions issue has been fully addressed by the RES, which includes details about how the recycling centre works, its impacts on traffic, highways, air quality, landscape, ecology, noise and vibration, archaeology, land contamination and other relevant issues.”
Pressure group
The judicial review was called by a local pressure group, the Herefordshire Waste Watchers – which wants the plant built elsewhere. Estech are now waiting to hear when the council's southern area planning committee will sit to consider the new document.
The Estech Europe Fibrecycle process takes in mixed household waste and subjects it to a range of conventional mechanical separation techniques – including screens, magnetic and eddy current separators – as well as steam treatment in a rotating autoclave. The company claims that the process converts 80% of municipal solid waste into sanitised secondary recyclate.
Elsewhere Estech is currently evaluating and establishing solutions for the work required under pre-contract conditions for a plant in Hartlebury, Worcestershire. Planning permission for the plant was approved in February this year and the company expects it to be built by next spring.
A second site for Worcestershire is also planned, the company is still looking for a location at this point.
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