The company announced today that the council's Planning and Licensing Committee has given the go-ahead to a 14 million materials recycling facility at Warren Way, on the Crown Farm Industrial Estate in Forest Town, Mansfield.
 Veolia hopes to begin construction on the new MRF in Mansfield in 2007 |
Subject to approval from the Government Office for the East Midlands, the plant will sort, grade and bulk up to 85,000 tonnes of paper, card, plastic and cans a year, from Nottinghamshire's kerbside recycling collections.
The new facility will be similar in look and capacity to Veolia's MRF in Alton, Hampshire.
The project will furnish Veolia's 26-year, 850 million PFI contract to manage Nottinghamshire's 460,000 tonnes a year of household waste. Starting in June, the contract was the first PFI agreement to be signed in two years, and is hoped to create a dramatic reduction in the amount of waste Nottinghamshire sends to landfill (see letsrecycle.com story).
Edward Thomas, project director for Veolia Environmental Services, said: “This is an integral part of our plan to deliver ambitious recycling and sustainability targets for all of Nottinghamshire, supported by the segregation carried out by householders. The decision allows us to get on with the job of making Nottinghamshire one of the top performers nationally.”
The Warren Way facility – which will be managed by Veolia Environmental Services – is expected to begin construction in spring 2007 and employ up to forty people. Although most of the sorting will be mechanised using technology yet to be decided, manual sorting will still be required for quality control.
Nottinghamshire is hoping that the MRF will help boost Nottinghamshire's 37% recycling rate to 53% by 2020.
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Councillor Stella Smedley, cabinet member for the environment at Nottinghamshire county council, said: “This facility is crucial in enabling the county council to increase its household waste recycling rate, which will play a significant part in tackling global warming by reducing the waste that is currently sent to landfill.”
She added: “We have widely consulted on these proposals amongst local people and other affected parties and incorporated their views into the application.”
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