Explaining the benefits of the decision, Works Manager Ian Mycock said: “It’s good for our business as it helps keep rising energy costs under control. Using tyres as a source of energy allows us to further improve our environmental performance by reducing emissions.. and helps tackle a serious waste disposal problem for the country and save valuable fossil fuels.”
As a result of the decision, the company will be able to up its use of tyre chips from four to six and a half tonnes per hour, for which it has invested in a new automotive tyre chip feed system due to be operational during the summer. This is the third permit received by the company from the Environment Agency in the last eight months.
Lafarge already supplies three of its plants with tyres and expects to use a total of 2,000 tyres per week by the end of 2002. So far, it has used 20 million tyres at Cauldon, which it claims saves 150,000 tonnes of coal. Forty million tyres are thrown away each year in the UK.
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