A deal worth seven hundred and thirty million pounds between Cambridgeshire County Council and Donarbon Waste Management has been reached. The contract involves, among other things, building of a new Mechanical Biological Treatment plant.
Bernard Warr, the Head of Waste Management at Cambridgeshire County Council said that formally announcing the deal would take place after the ceremonial sod-cutting expected to happen at the Waterbeach site, which is the proposed site of the Mechanical Biological Treatment plant. The capacity of the Mechanical Biological Treatment Plant will be approximately one hundred and seventy thousand tonnes of waste annually.
Mr Warr disclosed that reaching an agreement on the deal had taken so long because of unresolved issues with the principal sub-contractors of the Mechanical Biological Treatment plant. One of the problems was the cost of the facility and it took more than two months to reach a decision on this matter.
Another problem presented itself when Stadler, the German company that was supposed to supply machinery for the plant walked out of the deal. Another firm had to be invited to join the scheme and before the compliance testing process was through, a lot of time had been wasted.
Presently at Cambridgeshire County Council the amount of waste that undergoes recycling and composting is around fifty one per cent or approximately one hundred and fifty thousand tonnes. Once the new plant is operational the Council hopes the rate of recycling will increase even further especially now that landfill tax costs are looming large.
Besides construction of the Mechanical Biological Treatment plant, part of the funding will also go into constructing two new waste transfer stations.
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