TW Services are building purpose designed facilities that will create the essential infrastructure needed to increase recycling capacity on the site to handle waste from Dover, Shepway, Thanet and Canterbury for the next 10 years and beyond.
Construction begins on an ambitious waste treatment and energy park at Sandwich in East Kent, which is set to handle 750,000 tonnes a year of waste, having been granted planning permission by Kent County Council to develop the proposal at a 20 Acre site adjacent to the disused Richborough power station in the East of the County.
TW Services currently handles 400,000 tonnes of mostly construction and demolition waste as well as some commercial and municipal waste. Under the new project the firm intends to add 325,000 tonnes a year of reprocessing and recycling capacity, mainly focused on municipal waste treatment.
This will include a 50,000 tonne a year capacity material recovery facility (MRF) a 25,000 tonne a year capacity anaerobic digestion (AD) facility and a 250,000 tonne a year capacity soil washing plant.
Feedstock for the plant has been secured under a sub-contract with Veolia Environmental Services which landed a 10 year waste management contract tendered by five Kent Councils in November 2010. The contract covers waste collected from both Dover and Shepway and from 2013 this will be extended to cover both Thanet and Canterbury.
