Viridor has announced that it will virtually share plans for its polymers reprocessing plant at Dunbar in Scotland with the local community later this week.
The original plan to offer face to face drop in sessions for the plans has been amended to offer details online in light to the Covid-19 crisis. People can also request paper copies by telephone or email.
Residents and stakeholders will be able to view plans online
Earlier this year Viridor briefed its Dunbar Community Liaison Group about its intention to begin a planning application process with East Lothian Council for an 80,000 tonnes per year polymer recycling plant.
This would be located adjacent to the energy from waste plant on the Dunbar site.
Viridor stated that the new polymers facility will receive “low-carbon heat and power” generated from the adjacent plant.
Circular
A Viridor spokesperson said: “Our plans are designed to help Scotland deliver its ambitious climate change and circular economy targets. Scotland’s goal is to ensure that recyclable material consumed here are retained within a Scottish circular economy. To achieve this, Scotland will need companies like Viridor to invest in recycling infrastructure, such as the facility we are proposing.
“Dunbar represents an excellent opportunity to co-locate a new reprocessing plant with Dunbar ERF. In this way, the country will be able to achieve both its resource and energy efficiency goals.”
Residents and stakeholders can get information on the plans by visiting their online constellation website between 24th April and 8th May.
The Dunbar EfW generates 258GWh of energy and up to 10MW of heat and became operational in 2019.
The Scottish project is similar in approach to Viridor’s plastics plant in Avonmouth, Bristol which is being developed alongside an energy plant and will use heat from it.
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