Natural World Products Ltd (NWP) has rolled out new operations to export up to 100,000 tonnes of RDF to plants in Holland and Germany each year.
The Northern Irish firm which also carries out services including composting and WEEE recycling – began producing refuse-derived fuel last year from the non-recyclable fraction of the waste it processes at its Portadown and Belfast facilities.
NWP has leased a staging area at Belfast Harbour as well as entering into an agreement with Jenkins Shipping Company, which will transport the waste to energy-from-waste plants on the continent.
Meanwhile, the partnership with Belfast Harbour will allow NWP to consolidate existing jobs, make use of the storage facility, and allow for shipment of 3,000 tonnes of RDF every two weeks.
A growing number of companies are now exporting waste derived fuels to the continent, with latest figures showing that the UK exported a total of 800,000 tonnes of material to the continent in the first three months of 2014 (see letsrecycle.com story).
Recovery
NWP operations director Caolan Woods said the production of RDF which the firm has branded Engineered Fuels (EngFuels) fits in with its message of reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery of waste.
He said: Using our innovative new system, material that could previously only have been sent to landfill can now be carefully refined and processed into a high quality energy resource.
‘We are partnering with local councils across Northern Ireland to help meet targets for a reduction in landfill usage, as set out in the European Landfill Directive. We have worked closely with the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to ensure that our EngFuel is engineered to the highest possible standards, with a demonstrable audit trail for full duty of care traceability.’
– Caolon Woods, NWP operations director
We are partnering with local councils across Northern Ireland to help meet targets for a reduction in landfill usage, as set out in the European Landfill Directive. We have worked closely with the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to ensure that our EngFuel is engineered to the highest possible standards, with a demonstrable audit trail for full duty of care traceability.
Gavin Doherty manager of Engineered Fuels, added: With current issues such as the rise of landfill tax affecting Northern Ireland, EngFuel is a cost-effective and efficient method of driving a sustainable reduction in the use of landfill and therefore generating savings for the local economy.
We are able to ship 100,000 tonnes of waste per year to be converted to energy this is equivalent to a vast amount of landfill space. In addition to a sustainable service, we offer customers the comfort of satisfying duty of care requirements.
Partnership
Based in Armagh, in 2008 NWP entered into a strategic partnership with SITA Northern Ireland so that the latter could bid for waste management contracts in the province (see letsrecycle.com story).
And, in 2009 NWP officially opened a 6 million in-vessel composting facility at the former Glenside Quarry site in West Belfast to treat up to 60,000 tonnes of food and garden waste a year. At the time, the IVC was touted as the largest organics recycling facility in Northern Ireland (see letsrecycle.com story).
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