Recycling businesses have become some of the fastest growing businesses around the world. People are finding that there is suddenly money to be made by recycling things like plastic, mobile phones, and all types of flooring and building materials. It is now being discovered that some of the most valuable things we have are being thrown away, namely waste that could be converted into valuable energy. The Peterborough City Council recently approved plans for a new energy from waste facility that they hope will generate heat and electricity for millions of homes. These types of plants are popping up all over the United Kingdom as more people are realizing the massive potential of turning things like organic waste into energy to heat and light homes.
The thirty eight million pound energy from waste facility will be built on the same site as the council’s current materials recycling plant at Forth Drove, Fengate. The plant is just one part of the city’s sixty million pound overhaul of the waste and recycling centers in the city, and will treat more than sixty thousand tonnes of waste per year. The plant is slated to begin operations in 2014, as it has yet to be decided which business will be responsible for running the plant. Currently a short list of firms is being compiled and an announcement will soon be made about which company will get the business.
One stipulation is that the plant must collect most of the waste from within a fifty km radius of the facility which means that most will come from Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.
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