What will happen to the Refuse Derived Fuel if businesses do not want to buy it?
If markets are not available for the Refuse Derived Fuel, the Materials Resource Management Contract will trigger the development of a bespoke Gasification plant at Brookhurst Wood to thermally treat the Refuse Derived Fuel, producing heat and power to supply local industry, and a planning application would then be brought forward for this. This application would not be for a mass burn incinerator. Should this plant go ahead, the amount of traffic generated by the site would significantly reduce, as up to 150,000 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel would no longer need to be exported from the site each year.
