Council Leader Tours MRF Developed by SUEZ : VIDEO: £27m Recycling Facility Nears Completion in Aberdeen
Aberdeen City Council Leader Jenny Laing has visited the city’s new £27 million Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) as work on the site nears completion and the city’s new kerbside recycling scheme starts to go live.
The new centre will be the focal point for the city’s recycling scheme which has also seen huge investments in over 70,000 new additional household waste bins and a new fleet of waste collection vehicles.
The plant will comprise a materials recycling facility where mixed recyclables, collected from homes and businesses, will be sorted before being forwarded on for re-processing and a refuse derived fuel facility that will process residual waste – the waste materials that remain once all viable attempts to recycle them have taken place – to extract metals.
The remaining material will then be securely baled prior to onward transfer out of the area, where it will be diverted from landfill and put to better use in the recovery of energy.
The development site will also include a replacement vehicle depot for the council’s waste collection fleet, which is currently located on Powis Terrace and shared office space for both SUEZ and Aberdeen City Council.
The project is being managed on behalf of SUEZ, by its principle contractor, Morrison Construction, a locally based subsidiary of Galliford Try. Morrison’s sub-contractors and supply chain, which includes structural engineers, mechanical and electrical services and steelwork fabricators are all based in Scotland with 15 of its 18 contractors all based in the North East region, ensuring that the majority of civil and building work is undertaken by local firms.
Morrison’s have been tasked with constructing the new facility as sustainably as possible and 3000 tonnes of rock excavated on site has been reused to form the foundations of the building.
By the end of the project, more than 27,000 tonnes of site derived soil and aggregate will have been reused in building screening bunds, forming bases and creating a level site.
Once testing is complete, SUEZ will fully take over the operation of the new facility in the summer of 2017.
According to SUEZ the development represents an investment of approximately £27 million in Aberdeen and has employed up to 65 people during construction. A further 40 new, permanent jobs will be created when operations begin in the summer of 2017.
Residual waste from the facility will be processed to produce a Refuse Derived Fuel for use in a waste to energy plant.
Aberdeen City Council Leader Jenny Laing explains more in the video below.
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