The UK’s largest recycling, waste management and energy recovery company, Viridor, is cutting its annual road miles by more than 160,000 across the busy route between Cardiff and Bristol, the company has announced.
Viridor, which owns and operates the Trident Park Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Cardiff, diverts in excess of 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste from landfill and generates 30MW of electricity for the national grid – enough to power around 50,000 homes.
Trident Park ERF Operations Manager Tim Stamper said the annual reduction in road miles (162,268) was being achieved by moving most of its incinerator bottom ash (the material which remains after the non-recyclable waste has been used as a fuel to generate electricity) by rail instead of road.
Changing the method of transportation from road to rail will also achieve a 50% reduction in annual transport emissions.
The ash collected leaves the docks at Cardiff and goes on to Day Group Ltd in Avonmouth for further processing and metal recovery prior to being used in aggregate industries, including road construction. It is part of Viridor’s commitment to seeing waste as a resource and not rubbish, identifying a purpose for all materials.
Approximately 172,00 tonnes of the waste processed by Viridor at Trident Park ERF, is delivered by the five Councils which make up the Prosiect Gwyrdd (Project Green) partnership: Cardiff, Newport, Monmouthshire, Vale of Glamorgan and Caerphilly.
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Part of the FTSE 250 Pennon Group, every day Viridor takes what British homes and businesses throw away and transforms it into essential quality materials, resources and energy for customers across the UK and globally.
Viridor works in partnership with more than 150 local authority and major corporate clients with 32,000 customers across the UK. The company has the UK’s largest network of 300+ advanced recycling, energy recovery and landfill diversion facilities with 600 waste collection vehicles securing materials for our network of assets.
Viridor embodies the circular economy, managing seven million tonnes of recyclates and resources each year with 1.4 million tonnes of recyclate traded, and 4.9 million tonnes of material recycled or recovered.
