Mid UK Recycling – which has already helped North Kesteven council to the top of the recycling league table through its state-of the-art MRF – (see letsrecycle.com story) – told letsrecycle.com yesterday that it is planning to open a plant next month to produce refuse derived fuel from waste which cannot be recycled.
Designed to turn lower-quality household, commercial and skip waste such as dirty clothes and plastic into fuel, the plant will provide a market for material which currently goes to landfill.
The material will provide fuel for cement kilns, which have increasingly expressed an interest in waste-based fuels as an alternative to fossil fuels, (see letsrecycle.com story).
Mid UK managing director Chris Mountain said: “We have designed a bespoke plant which will be commissioned by the end of October, and is designed for 50,000 tonnes of waste a year that it landfilled at the moment.”
“We will produce an RDF product from the residual element of recycling. The material is shredded and then turned into a 35ml floc, which can be injected into the kilns,” he added.
Plasterboard
At the 15-acre Mid UK Recycling site in Caythorpe, other initiatives include an open windrow composting site and a materials recycling facility which can handle glass and separate it from other materials.
Earlier this year, the company also received planning permission for a wood-burning biomass plant and last year, the company also opened a plasterboard recycling facility.
Designed to separate gypsum from the paper in plasterboard, the plant enables both to be recycled.
Mr Mountain said: “What makes us unique is that if, for instance, a skip with hard plastic, plasterboard, branches and glass comes in we can recycle it all so we can work with customers and guarantee zero waste to landfill.”
“We are also looking at building a new office and education centre and weighbridge so there are quite a few ongoing projects. We expect to hold an official opening in April, when everything is complete,” he added.
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