UK Wood Recycling Ltd, which was set up to service the Wilton 10 power station on Teeside (see letsrecycle.com story) is now stockpiling a “considerable” amount of low-grade waste wood.
 UK Wood Recycling is preparing for the opening of the Wilton 10 biomass plant in March |
Under its latest agreement, the company hopes to take up to 10,000 tonnes of waste wood a year from local firm JWS Recycling Ltd, who are responsible for taking waste from Redcar and Cleveland's civic amenity sites.
Aided by the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), the agreement could lead to a 10-year supply contract to divert up to 100,000 tonnes of waste from landfill over the next decade.
Alistair Trail, project officer for NISP North East, said: “We got JWS and UK Wood Recycling to meet and it went from there. UK Wood Recycling is totally blitzing the area.”
The JWS contract will help as UK Wood Recycling aims to source 80,000 tonnes of low-grade wood and 160,000 tonnes of clean wood every year to fuel the 60 million Wilton 10 plant. The company has so far collected about 12,000 tonnes of material since July.
Geoff Hadfield, managing director of UK Wood Recycling, told letsrecycle.com: “We are taking a lot of waste wood in, in the run-up to the power plant opening around March. We will take wood from all over the country but we want to take material closest to the site first, because it is better from an environmental and a commercial point of view.”
” We are taking a lot of waste wood in, in the run-up to the power plant opening around March. “
– Geoff Hadfield, UK Wood Recycling
Mr Hadfield added: “Biomass is going to be a big developing market for low grade waste wood that doesn't have a home. It ticks all the boxes, is environmentally friendly, and must be better than putting something in the ground.”
Alternative
The development of the biomass plant has been widely welcomed by the wood recycling sector, in providing an alternative outlet for low-grade waste wood, other than landfill.
JWS is initially supplying 4,000 tonnes of low grade wood and 1,000 tonnes of clean wood each year, but hopes to increase this rate by recovering wood from more businesses in the North East.
For every 10,000 tonnes of wood which JWS recycling supplies to UK Wood Recycling, the company will save around 200,000 on Landfill Tax and transport costs.
John Campbell, manager of JWS recycling, said: “Anything that goes away from landfill is saving me money. The biomass boiler is a great thing as so much wood goes to landfill unnecessarily.”
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NISP believes its match-making between JWS and UK Wood Recycling will reduce greenhouse emissions by 20,125 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent each year, and represents a 84,000 sales boost to UK Wood Recycling.
Peter Laybourn, NISP Director, added: “Biomass boiler systems provide a sound commercial and environmentally responsible outlet for companies to utilise waste materials which would otherwise be sent to landfill.”
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