Eu referendum whats your vote

ramone:

Bewick:

Carryfast:

ramone:
Not sure whats going on here, they dont burn landfill waste in the burners they burn RDF which is the filtered residue after sorting. There is a process where wood plastic metal and other recycables are removed , there are things not suitable for the burner , mattresses and tyres to name two and the RDF must meet certain industry standards. We were/are exporting waste at a cheaper price to Sweden , Norway , Germany and Holland than landfilling it. Our local landfill closed last year but the cost to tip there was £97 per ton £86 of that went to the inland revenue the cost to export was averaging around £80 a ton includling transport. There are burners being built at a rate now the penny has dropped

If they aren’t burning wood/board/plastics/recyclables then what is left to burn ?.

Leatherhead ! :wink: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

The point was that we were exporting waste to europe at a cost albeit cheaper than heavily taxed landfill here for them to produce energy , why didn’t we do it here earlier. We are now doing the same but should have been doing it years ago.
As for what we burn google RDF it will tell you all about it. Then google SRF that’s where the money is because you sell that
.The burners are very expensive to build and are highly regulated in a polution sense

The Raikes Lane Bolton Energy Recovery Facility has an 8 Mw turbo alternator that produces electricity for the grid by burning household waste. If Bolton hasn’t enough suitable waste to burn then Salford sends its refuse trucks there to tip. With the forced closure of all our coal fired power stations surely one or two of them could have been adapted to burn household waste. They have all the necessary flue gas emission controls, and many of the turbines have years of life left in them, most of them were upgraded in the early 2000s. Did the government and energy companies investigate if it was feasible? Probably not because of vested interests.