A beautiful industrial building? An environmentally friendly power station? A waste facility wildly popular with visitors? Check, check, check, with Suez’s streamlined Suffolk Energy-from-Waste plant. Michael Willoughby reports
400,000 tonne Veolia scheme in Hertfordshire was refused planning by the Communities Department following a three- year battle. So, in planning for a plant overlooking Suffolk’s Gipping Valley, an area of nature reserves and waterways, Suez
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espite the many environmental benefits of EfW plants, they often face local opposition and get dubbed “incinerators.” As recently as September, a
(formerly SITA) could be expected to make an effort. Instead, it pulled out all the stops, creating a fully-landscaped, BREEAM Excellent-designed, CABE accolade-laden gem of a building. The £180 million plant in question burns around 269,000
tonnes of black bin (residual) waste annually to produce power for 30,000 homes – approximately the size of Lowestoft, the county’s second-largest town. And, as well as
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