Activities at Wednesbury involve the storage of both hazardous and non-hazardous waste and raw materials in tanks and the subsequent physico-chemical treatment of the waste, resulting in the production of filter cake and a trade effluent.
Every aspect of the plant is controlled by our team of trained chemists using a recently installed state of the art computerised control and monitoring system.
Our chemists inspect and sample every load that arrives at Wednesbury and we only accept the wastes our plant is designed and permitted to process.
Our acceptance of a bulk waste is subject to analysis in our advanced onsite laboratory facility where the treatment process carried out by the plant can be in advance of offloading.
Wednesbury Treatment plant’s weighbridge ensures we know exactly how much waste has been offloaded into the storage tanks and the tanker wash out facility means the waste delivered is fully offloaded when the vehicle departs our facility.
The treatment plant has been designed on a modular concept. Many wastes are subject to pre-treatment before entering the main plant, e.g. Ammonia Stripping. Because of the modular design of the plant, new pre-treatment modules can be added to the facility increase the range of wastes that can be accepted.
- Acid / lime neutralisation
- Redox (large, small and advanced);
- Batch redox/neutralisation;
- VOC stripping,
- Ammonia stripping;
- Carbon absorption;
- Oil / water separation
- An effluent treatment plant to treat the resulting effluent
The entire site is surfaced with concrete which is drained to a number of sumps / discharge pits around the site. All collected water is processed in the main treatment plant.
Health, safety and Legal Compliance is key to everything we do and we maintain a full paperwork and audit trail to ensure compliance with all relevant producers legislation.
Biffa has an Environmental Management System which is externally accredited to ISO 14001 as well as 9000 & 18000 accreditation
