Biffa’s facility has been designed to protect local amenity and it will fully comply with environmental standards.
- The new facility is located in a low-lying area of the site that is well screened from views outside of the site by surrounding embankments and landscaping. Biffa is also planting new woodland and shrubs to provide additional screening and improve the site’s biodiversity.
- The facility will process rubbish in an enclosed environment designed to contain odours and noise using a range of measures including high-speed roller doors, filters, air extraction systems, and sound insulation.
- The emissions from the facility will be monitored and will meet stringent European air quality standards.
- The facility has been granted a permit to operate by the Environment Agency, the body responsible for regulating the facility.
- The Agency will actively monitor the facility throughout its operational life to ensure that it operates within the terms of its permit.
- Once the facility is completed it will undergo a period of commissioning. This will rigorously test the facility to make sure it operates as efficiently as possible throughout its 25-year life. The facility will open on completion of this commissioning period, which is due in 2013.
- The MBT facility will take the waste left over after householders have separated out recyclables and use as much of this as possible as a resource, minimising the amount of the County’s waste that ends up in landfill. The MBT facility will be able to extract some further recyclable metals from the waste, which will increase the overall recycling rate in West Sussex.
- Biffa is working with the waste management partners in West Sussex to increase recycling and reduce the amount of rubbish produced in the County. Together with the other partners, Biffa sits on the board of ‘Better Tomorrows’, an independent not for profit company which promotes waste minimisation campaigns and sustainable waste management.
