A recycling firm has revealed that due to the testing of the upgrades made at its aerobic digestion facility it was being forced to send more municipal waste to landfill sites.
Premier Waste stopped the processing of waste earlier this year in March at its Thornley-based Premier Advanced Recycling Centre after the Environment Agency directed that company dump ten thousand tonnes of the digester’s output to landfill sites. Durham county council owns Premier Waste.
This was because the environment body was concerned about the amount of plastic and glass found in the compost-like-output. The Environment Agency was also concerned that the processing of waste had not been taking place at the required heat levels.
Before the order from the environment body, Premier Advanced Recycling Centre had provided waste processing services to clients such as the local authorities of South Tyneside, Durham, Easington and Sedgefield. Since the aerobic digester was not working now all the waste was being sent to landfills.
Following the environmental body’s order, the recycling firm was involved in re-engineering the waste processing facility and putting special emphasis on the facilities involved in the separation of waste and the heating of the output.
A spokesperson for Premier Waste revealed that the upgrading had been completed and all that was being waited for was the re-commissioning of the Premier Advanced Recycling Centre as well as testing by Defra and the environmental body which necessitated all this.
The spokesperson could not however divulge when the digester would be back in operation.
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