The “dirty” MRF, which will recover recyclable material from mixed household waste, is to be run by Shanks East London and will form part of its East London Waste Authority (ELWA) contract. PPS Recovery, the UK representatives for CP, will oversee the project.
The site will be capable of taking 110,000 tonnes of waste a year from the boroughs of Newham, Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, of which Shanks believes 30% can be recycled. Shanks expect it to be up and running by April 2005.
CP will be providing two screening machines, one Trommel and one Grizzly, which will be used to sort the rubbish as it comes in. There will be an air classifier that will separate the plastic while the metals will be sorted by an Edi current and an overboard magnet. Finally the site will house a walking floor feeder, a conveyor belt that allows employees to remove recyclables from the waste stream by hand.
The outer shell for the MRF, which is already half way to completion, is being constructed by a separate contractor, Kier group.
Nick Wellington, communications manager at Shanks East London said: “The MRF is the third stage of our four stage plan for the four boroughs which we hope will have the area recycling 33% of waste by 2016 while over 50% will be diverted from landfill.”
The first stage of the Shanks' ELWA strategy was the introduction of kerbside collection service, which offers a separate recyclables collection. The second was the upgrading of CA sites which also separates recyclables. At the CA sites waste is also collected and it is this waste which is taken to the site at Frog Island.
The fourth stage will see the waste from Frog Island taken to a Bio MRF to be built at Newham, which will produce refuse-devised fuel. The Newham facility will be commissioned in 2006 and CP and PPS have expressed interest in providing machinery.
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