North Yorkshire County Council made the announcement this month after planning committee discussions had been postponed several times.
The company was given the go-ahead to build a MRF and a landfill gas electricity generation scheme on land at the Tancred Quarry in Scorton near Richmond. The site will also contain a composting project and a landfill which will take over from nearby Scorton Landfill when it closes next year.
Yorwaste managing director Steve Grieve said: “We are pleased with this decision. It will enable the company to provide the communities in the north part of North Yorkshire with a waste facility to handle their long-term future recycling and waste disposal requirements.”
The company has not yet decided when building at the site will start, but confirmed it will not be until April 2004 at the earliest. The final cost of the project, to be taken from Yorwaste funding reserves, has yet to be calculated.
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