Energy from Waste
Energy from Waste facilities play a crucial role in supporting the UK’s goal to manage waste more efficiently and sustainably, helping to reduce its impact on climate change.
After reducing, reusing and recycling as much waste as possible, EfW facilities provide the infrastructure to efficiently recover vital energy from non-recycled waste through combustion, meaning landfill becomes the last resort. The process is extremely efficient, robust and safe, with emissions treated to meet the stringent European Industrial Emissions Directive.
How an EfW facility works
Our financial year 2024 achievements
3.5m
tonnes of waste diverted from landfill.
Throughput efficiency increase resulting in an additional 176,000 tonnes processed, nearly twice the annual waste output of a town the size of Swindon.
Powered 778,000 homes by exporting more than 2,100GWh of power.
69,000 tonnes of Air Pollution Control residues (APCr) recycled.
662,000 tonnes of Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) reprocessed into new materials.
11,700 tonne of metals recycled from black bag waste.
