Minosus, at Winsford in the heart of Cheshire, is the UK's first and only underground disposal facility for hazardous waste, build in an old Salt Union mine and managed by Veolia.
 The Minosus project allows inert hazardous wastes, such as incinerator ash, to be stored half a mile underground |
The Minosus project had also included a document storage business, known as DeepStore, which had been managed by Compass.
The two operations will continue following a dissolving of their joint venture, but with each company working independently of each other.
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Veolia will keep the Minosus name for its hazardous waste project, which has been running since 2005 (see letsrecycle.com story). The facility has the capacity to take in around 100,000 tonnes of inert hazardous waste each year, and has a full laboratory on-site to test material, such as incinerator bottom ash, being deposited there.
Cyrille du Peloux, Veolia Environmental Services' chief executive for UK and Northern Europe, commented: “We have had a successful partnership with Compass Minerals and our working relationship remains strong. This agreement to dissolve the two businesses will be mutually beneficial, allowing both ourselves and Compass Minerals to focus efforts on our respective areas of expertise, increasing the efficiencies of each business.
“On our part, this emphasises the ongoing development of our integrated offering to customers and is part of our general strategy to ensure customers are provided with a fully comprehensive range of solutions to suit all their requirements.”
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