FCC, a Spanish firm, has inaugurated a waste management center in Bracknell, U.K., after completing a renovation of the facility. This is the latest installation to be inaugurated by the re3 Partnership, comprising the Bracknell Forest, Reading and Wokingham Councils working with Waste Recycling Group, which was acquired by FCC three years ago.
The re3 Partnership was established to improve the infrastructure and facilities with a view to increasing the rate of reuse, recycling and composting while minimizing the amount of waste sent to landfills over a 25-year period.
The new facility includes a household waste recycling center and a waste transfer station where waste from the curbside collection services is sorted and separated. There are also improved facilities for collecting and disposing of waste from the curbside collection service and a weighbridge for trade waste.
The partnership anticipates that it will handle over 100,000 metric tons of waste each year, which will contribute to achieving their target of recycling or composting 40 percent of the waste produced in the three boroughs by next year.
By 2021 the partner councils expect to use them to recycle more than 50 percent of their waste and obtain value from 74 percent.
WRG processes more than 11 million metric tons of solid waste each year.