And if so, how many and where are they?
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It's a photolink to waste-to-energy plants in Netherlands and Belgium. Hope it works.
2006-10-20 03:09:25 · 7 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in Environment
It does :-)
2006-10-20 03:10:01 · update #1
Oh, and do/would/could they solve the problems of landfills?
2006-10-20 03:11:30 · update #2
There is a number of waste to energy plants across the country where municipal solid waste is combusted to create electricity:
Teeside - 1, Southhampton - 2, London - 2/3, to name as many as i can off the top of my head.
Also there are many more in the pipeline, and there would be significantly more if it wasn't for narrow minded daily mail reading nimbyists that live in the UK.
Also nearly every non-hazardous landfill in the country (that accepts municipal solid waste) uses the methane it creates in gas engines to create electricty to sell on the national grid which is a kind of waste to energy.
I don't think we will see the likes of the incinerators in Holland however once the landfill directives tightening controls start happening we will see less and less landfills and much more other technologies such as waste to energy plants.
2006-10-26 01:41:31 · answer #1 · answered by I8myjob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grundon waste management have an incinerator at colnbrook near heathrow. and a waste company in portsmouth also has an incinerator.
there are plans that they will sell excess energy created by the plant to the national grid.
2006-10-22 08:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by Richard S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several - I know of at least two in London, in Edmonton (near Ikea) and Charlton (near the stadium).
2006-10-20 03:24:32 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
theres one in Small heath near Birmingham on the A45.
2006-10-20 03:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by Alfred E. Newman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
one is planed and under construction in sandwich kent
2006-10-21 03:21:31 · answer #5 · answered by dennis l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there's one in stoke
2006-10-22 08:43:51 · answer #6 · answered by Friartuck 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO
2006-10-24 02:18:05 · answer #7 · answered by Kmart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋