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 ... Full Story

