Veolia Environmental Services in Nottinghamshire

Since 2006, Veolia Environmental Services has been helping Nottinghamshire County Council to manage household waste created in the county. Over the life of the 26 year PFI waste management contract, Veolia Environmental Services will help to increase household recycling and composting to 52% by 2021; significantly reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.

To date, Veolia Environmental Services Nottinghamshire has:

• Provided waste awareness and education initiatives across the county.
• Provided a Materials Recovery Facility in Mansfield, which has the capacity to handle around 85,000 tonnes per year of mixed dry recyclables from Nottinghamshire households. This includes paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and metal cans.
• Established a new, split-level Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) to serve Worksop.
• Taken over the management of some of the County’s Household Waste Recycling Centres, establishing a unified approach and increasing standards at the sites to help maximise recycling levels achieved.
• Refurbished many of the HWRCs to make them more modern and user-friendly.
• Used existing, planned, constructed and licensed landfill sites to take residual waste from Nottinghamshire households.

In the future, Veolia Environmental Services Nottinghamshire plans to:

• Create a network of new transfer stations to serve Newark and Worksop.
• Utilise existing sites at Giltbrook and Nottingham to receive and handle waste and recyclables from Borough and District council collections.
• Continue our long-term refurbishment programme of the HWRCs.
• Construct a 180,000 tonne per year Energy Recovery Facility in the Mansfield / Ashfield area to convert residual waste into power. The 15MW of energy recovered from the energy recovery process would be the equivalent of providing power to around 22,000 homes.
• Provide a composting facility in central Nottinghamshire and utilise other existing composting sites, to handle a total of 35,000 tonnes of green waste per year.
• Continue providing waste awareness and education initiatives across the county, in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council.