The new £13 million integrated waste management facility (IWMF) that SITA UK is constructing in West Sleekburn, Northumberland will soon be completed.
In 2006, the company entered into a 28-year PFT contract with the Northumberland County Council, and this new facility forms an integral part of the infrastructure to support that contract.
The SITA UK general manager in Northumberland, Richard Hinchcliffe, said: “It is vital for SITA UK, as the county council’s partner, to invest in state-of-the-art new facilities that can handle the ever-increasing amount of recycled materials collected, and also achieve the ambitious landfill diversion targets that have been set.”
He added: “The partnership is aiming for just eight per cent of Northumberland’s waste to be sent to landfill by 2012. That will make the county one of the greenest for waste management in the UK.”
The West Sleekburn waste management facility is scheduled to be fully-operational in April 2009 and is a critical component of the joint plan between the Northumberland County Council and SITA UK to increase recycling and to divert as much waste as possible.
The two core elements that comprise the facility are a waste transfer station (WTS) and a materials recycling facility (MRF).
As much as 50,000 tonnes of mixed dry recyclables will be processed at the MRF annually. Dry recyclables include cans, cardboard, magazines, newspapers and plastic bottles that are collected by the recycling schemes operated by local district councils across Northumberland.
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