A new £317 million plastics recycling and waste management facility has officially been opened in Avonmouth by Resources and Waste Minister Jo Churchill.
Viridor’s Avonmouth Resource Recovery facility near Bristol has the capacity to process 1.6 billion items of plastic and divert around 320,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste from landfill every year.More than 300GWh of electricity will be generated annually, enough to power around 84,000 homes and save 126,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
The new plant enables the company to fully recycle more than 90% of the plastics that it had previously exported, cutting plastic waste exports in the UK by around 8%.
Viridor’s latest analysis found around 1.3 million tonnes of carbon emissions could be saved every year by increasing plastic packaging recycling rates to 70% – up from 51% currently, the equivalent of taking around 685,000 cars off the road. Energy Live News - link - Priyanka Shrestha - link - more like this - link
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