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Why not make more use of the anaerobic digestion plant?AWRP's Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant can handle 40,000 tonnes of organic waste a year recovered through the mechanical sorting process. The residue from the AD will be used to power the Energy from Waste (EFW) unit because the input is mixed waste, so the material produced cannot be used by farmers or the public as compost or top soil. If separate food waste collections were introduced across the county by the waste collection authorities - the district and borough councils - the technology proposed would be capable of dealing with it. There are significant costs attached to the separate collection of this waste however and none of the collection authorities are currently considering introducing it at present. If we were able to recycle kitchen waste it would give us a further 5%-10% recycling - but even so there will still be around 30% of residual waste to be disposed of. |