turning waste into a resource - james pike, suez environement

Recycling and waste recovery UK

Turning your waste into a resource

James Pike – General Manager, South West

Go Green, Bristol, 13th April 2015

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contents

01 I SUEZ environnement01 I Who we are and what we do

02 I Our Vision02 I The circular economy

03 I Bristol Resource Recovery Park03 I Development and vision

04 I Avonmouth MRF04 I Recycling the South West’s business waste

05 I Avonmouth ELP05 I Converting waste plastics to fuel

06 I Severnside ERC06 I Producing electricity from waste

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A global industrial services company – water, waste, energy Present in 70 countries 80,000 employees 14.3bn euro revenues

320,000 industrial and commercial customers 44 million tonnes of waste treated per year 5,184 Gwh of energy produced from per year Strong heritage for Suez in South West:

Long term partner for Cornwall, Devon and South Gloucestershire Councils Largest private sector waste infrastructure in the region 6,000 I&C waste collection customers

SUEZ environnement

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To live in a society where there is no more waste...

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Vision of creating a unique ‘eco park’ for the South West Centralise waste recovery processes in one location

Sorting of industrial and commercial recycling R&D project for the conversion of waste plastics into liquid fuel

65,000m2 brownfield site acquired in January 2011 Positive planning credentials, underpinned by local need Environment Agency support for thermal treatment process

… complex site, with engineering challenges Chemical and heavy metal contamination, unexploded ordnance Location in flood plain required site level increase

Creation of 100 construction jobs and 80 permanent jobs in operation

Bristol Resource Recovery Park


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Avonmouth MRF


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A high volume sorting process, unique in the South West Providing a sound environmental solution for mixed commercial recycling Extracting valuable resources from otherwise waste materials Creating secondary products for international packaging manufacturers

Combined mechanical and manual sorting process to: Separate target materials (Fibre, OCC, PE, PET, HDPE, Fe, Non Fe) Extract glass and residual waste items Control output quality within 97.5% purity limit

Typical feedstock: SME’s producing office/packaging waste Producing around 1,000 week of recovered paper and plastics

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Metering Bin & Container Feed

Pre-Sort Cabin

OCC Screens

2d/3d Screen

Glass & Fines Separation

Fibre QC

Baler

Container Pre-Sort

Polymer NIR’s

Container QC

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Concept is to convert End of Life plastics to liquid fuel Diesel blend, Kerosene and Light Oil Target feedstock is plastics with minimal recycled value Low grade films and rigid plastics such as LDPE, PE and PP

Currently c.1.5mt of this material landfilled or incinerated Strong customer demand to find alternative processing route Added cyclical value and green credentials of fuel use Avonmouth ELP is first in UK, plan for more once operational

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Avonmouth ELP

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Process simplified as reverse of petrochemical fractionation

Material reformed until capable of being used to recover energy

20t/day feedstock will yield 17,000L fuel – an average forecourt

Key process steps: Feedstock shred and clean Plastic extrusion at 300oc Pyrolysis to break down carbon chains and reform Fractional distillation (standard oil refinery process) Fuel extraction and storage

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Producing up to 33 MW of electricity from municipal residual waste Capable of processing up to 380kt/pa Located at Severnside Works, (ex. ICI) next to Seabank Power

Unrestricted access to railhead Close to existing national grid connection Brownfield site, with minimal environmental/archaeological complications

Planning awarded on appeal to SoS Sept 11 Commissioning planned to commence early 2016 Significant road upgrades required as part of development

Creation of 550 construction jobs and 55 permanent on completion

Severnside Energy Recovery Centre


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West London PFI delivers c.300kt to SERC 2 WLWA Transfer Stations rail linked Unloading via gantry crane, c.1,000t/day 26 wagons x 3 containers at 13t, per train DB Schenker appointed to operate trains Remaining capacity <100kt/pa, road or rail

Waste by Rail – London to Bristol
