RECYCLING FACILITY SCOOPS RUNNER-UP IN NATIONAL COMPETITION

Press Release - October 2007

The UK’s first purpose-built biomass wood recycling facility has been awarded runner-up in a national recycling competition for its design and management.

UK Wood Recycling (UKWR), based next to the Wilton International Site at Redcar, Teesside, was one of just three finalists in the LetsRecycle.com awards for the Innovation in Design and Management of a recycling facility.

UKWR Managing Director Geoff Hadfield and Site Manager Gary Jones attended the award ceremony in London, where they were presented with a framed certificate by BBC News Reader Bill Turnbull.

Mr Hadfield said: “We are delighted to have got this far in the competition. Building the facility from scratch enabled us to fully consider the impact on the environment, and to choose a site which lent itself to our purposes and had good transport links close by.

“We are of course disappointed not to have won, but we still feel proud to have been recognised for the effort we put into planning and building the site.”

UK Wood Recycling will produce 80,000 tonnes a year of biomass fuel made from recycled wood waste, to help fuel the £60 million Sembcorp Biomass Power Station, which is due to officially open next month (Nov).

The facility has been built on a 12 acre brown-field site using state-of-the-art technology. The site was specifically chosen because it was a derelict industrial site close to the SembCorp Biomass Power Station.

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Picture (left to right): Steve Eminton, Editor of LetsRecycle.com, Geoff Hadfield, Gary Jones and Bill Turnbull.

For further information please contact Gayle Green on 07766 701479 or email gayle@mcpheeassociates.co.uk