New £317m Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre officially opened by UK Government Minister
3rd March 2022 | 3 mins

- £317m centre will process 1.6 billion plastic items and divert 320,00-tonnes of non-recyclable waste from landfill every year
- Plastics recycling at Avonmouth will create 125 jobs and save 126,000 tonnes of CO2 annually
- Investment is a central part of Viridor strategy to end plastic waste export, increase UK plastic recycling capacity and invest locally
- Five additional plastics plants on this scale would end exports and deliver Government recycling targets