Councillors from Worcestershire county council and Herefordshire council, along with key people from FCC Environment and Severn Waste Services, who run the facility on the councils’ behalf, gathered on Friday 13 September to celebrate. This involved planting a tree on site to commemorate the milestone.
The facility processes around 210,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste each year. This is said to be the equivalent average weight of over three million full, large wheelie bins and is made up of around 170,000 tonnes of waste picked up from residents and 40,000 tonnes of commercial waste from across Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
The waste is then processed to produce energy that is then sold back to National Grid. EnviRecover also provides around 40 permanent jobs.
’16 years into a great partnership’
Councillor Emma Stokes, Worcestershire county council’s cabinet member with responsibility for environment, said: “The presence of the facility in the county has a number of positive benefits: reducing waste being sent to landfill, producing power and providing jobs.
“We are 26 years into what has been, and continues to be, a great partnership with Severn Waste Services. Whilst our overall aim is always to support residents across the region to reduce waste of any kind wherever possible, we look forward to our future as we generate more energy from waste that can’t be recycled, for the benefit of local communities.”
Steve Longdon, chief executive of FCC Environment, said: “EnviRecover has been diverting waste from landfill for seven years and converting to energy is a real achievement for the residents of out Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We are focused on continuing to exceed performance expectations in our successful partnership with the councils as we carry on creating valuable electricity, jobs and community support for the county.”
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