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EnviRecoverGrowing concern for our Environment

Recovery of value from waste is increasingly essential

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Background• Application submitted in April 2010• Describes development in detail• Sets out need• Justifies location

– A large long established employment site

• Justifies scheme in context of planning policies• Justifies scheme in terms of waste policy• Importantly the JWMS and evidence gathered for

the Emerging Waste Core Strategy– Indentify need for a thermal treatment of up to 250k tpa– Hartlebury ranked highest location for a large scale waste

development in terms of current and future arisings

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The Environmental Impact Assessment

• Considers the specific environmental setting • How the plant will be

– Built– Operated– Monitored

to prevent any adverse impact locally and beyond• No significant impact on:

• Air quality• Traffic• Noise• Health

• In response to consultation we undertook specific additional investigations into potential impacts on local agriculture

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Evaluation• The application has been evaluated by:

– Your professional officers– A number of statutory technical consultees

none of whom have raised objections• The Environment Agency has been consulted and

a permit application has been processed by them

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Consultation• From the outset we have been open and pro-active• Community engagement

– Presentations– Exhibitions– Information leaflets– Reference site visit

listened, responded, and reacted• Our neighbours - “Community Liaison Group”

– Six meetings (January – July)– Provided a focal group– We will continue to engage with the community through this or

a similar group if our application is approved

• Our website will continue to provide information– Including Environmental Data

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• The fourth “R”– Reduce / Reuse / Recycle /Recover

• Since 1998 Mercia has been able to meet county recycling and landfill targets by– Improving HWRC sites and performance– Providing waste transfer stations, and bulking facilities– Operating composting sites– Providing EnviroSort (our successful MRF at Norton)

• EnviRecover– Right sized – to deal with projected waste arisings– Is a solution that in Europe that is associated with recycling

and low levels of landfill– It is a solution recognised by others, there are now 20 similar

plants and others in development in the UK

EnviRecover – part of an integrated solution (1)

EnviRecover – part of an integrated solution (2)

1999 2010 2020

EnviRecover

Hill &Moor

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EnviRecover the opportunity• The environmental imperative• The financial imperative• EnviRecover in comparison will provide a

– High quality– Proven– Economically and Environmentally sustainable solution

• It is a solution that will treat a range of wastes unlike Anaerobic Digestion

• It is not novel unlike Autoclave and other widely publicised failed solutions.

• EnviRecover will RECOVER value from waste that would be lost landfill

– Electricity - 20,000 homes– Future proofed to provide heat to local commerce– Renewable energy EnviRecover = sustainable solution for waste management

EnviRecover = a core asset to support regeneration and growth

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