The company has signed a cooperation agreement with the wholly owned subsidiary of Waste Management Inc – the largest environmental services company in North America – to offer mass burn energy from waste facilities to councils across the UK.
All UK plants would be designed, built and operated both by Shanks and Wheelabrator Technologies for the duration of any contract, the firm explained.
Ian F Goodfellow, Shanks UK managing director, said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. We believe the widening of our technology offering in the PFI market not only satisfies the needs of a number of local authorities but also compliments our Ecodeco MBT solution.
Facilities
Wheelabrator Technologies currently owns and/or operates 16 energy-from-waste facilities and five independent power production facilities.
These facilities are located in 10 states ranging from New Hampshire to southern Florida and on the West Coast, and have an electric generating capacity of 836 megawatts, enough energy to power more than 900,000 homes.
The energy-from-energy facilities have a solid waste disposal capacity of 21,340 tons per day – as much waste as is disposed of daily by more than nine million people.
Mark A Weidman, president of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc, said: “We are very pleased to be teaming up with Shanks, a recognised leader in the European waste sector. The combination of Shanks' established position in the industry and Wheelabrator's 35 years proven EfW experience offer a unique and competitive solution for the UK market.”
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