A waste treatment and transfer facility that could create dozens of jobs and potentially be of national importance may be coming to North East Lincolnshire. An initial environmental impact assessment (EIA) scoping report has been filed with North East Lincolnshire Council for the potential facility. It would be in Great Coates Business Park, right next to a recently approved tyre recycling plant , and be a thermal treatment plant.
A lack of suitable thermal treatment facilities means much of the UK waste needing this treatment gets taken abroad, a document states. The waste treatment facility would operate continuously, save for maintenance checks. It would process up to 30,000 tonnes of waste a year, and up to three tonnes an hour.
Read More: Armed Forces champ and education leader Alex Baxter to be honoured by University for his work in North East Lincolnshire Man who witnessed firsthand the 'devastation' caused by cancer organises charity darts day to give back It would be across a near ten-hectare site, split between two land parcels in the business park. The smaller parcel to the east would serve as a reception area, with weighbridge and office facilities. The primary land parcel would have the waste treatment facilities, including a main building of approximately 50m by 75m size, with a stack.
The stack's height is to be decided, but could be 40m. Most waste would arrive via vans and HGVs, packaged within wheeled bins, boxes, drums and intermediate bulk containers (IBCs.
