Recycling, Renewable Energy, Resource Efficiency

Cardiff

Unlike much of Europe, the UK has traditionally relied heavily on landfill to manage waste. This is rapidly changing due to European, national and local policies on waste management aimed at reducing the amount of waste generated, increasing recycling and composting, recovering value and energy from waste and reducing reliance on landfill.

This includes increasing landfill tax every year by £8 per tonne, until it reaches £80 by 2014.

The Welsh Assembly Government has been strongly urging local authorities to work together to achieve regional solutions to meet their long term waste management needs.

To this end, Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan, Monmouth, Newport and Caerphilly formed a partnership known as Prosiect Gwyrdd (Project Green) to look at suitable technologies to treat the nearly 200,000 tonnes of residual household waste produced in the area left over after recyclable materials have been removed for re-use or recycling.

Developed independently of this project, our proposals outline a high technology solution, offering maximum sustainability, which includes an Energy from Waste (EfW) Combined Heat and Power facility at Trident Park.

We anticipate the facility would generate approximately 50 new jobs in the local area.

Viridor was granted planning permission for Trident Park on 9 June 2010.

We listened long and hard to the views of local residents, local councillors and politicians and considered a range of views and issues raised in detail in relation to our proposals. This dialogue has been extremely useful and our intended community liaison group will allow us to continue our close contact as the project progresses.

We continue to welcome feedback and invite you to submit your views and comments on our proposals through the Contact Us page or by phoning 01823 721 400.