Notice

BB3 0RP, Suez Recycling And Recovery UK Ltd: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/BB3609KA/V002

Published 4 November 2024

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1. Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Suez Recycling And Recovery UK Ltd.

Application number

EPR/BB3609KA/V002

Regulated facility type

The site currently operates a Household, Commercial and Industrial waste transfer station for the physical treatment including sorting, separating, shredding, bulking and transfer of non-hazardous waste. The application is seeking to add: • Section 5.4 A(1)(b)(i) - Recovery or a mix of recovery and disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day (or 100 tonnes per day if the only waste treatment activity is anaerobic digestion) involving biological treatment. To enable the treatment of waste via anaerobic digestion. The facility will have an annual throughput of 100,000 tonnes per annum. • Two 1.2MW Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engines to generate heat and electricity from the generated biogas. The application is seeking to remove from the permit: • The Glass Bulking Activity • The Plastics Physical Treatment Activity The proposed variation will change the nature of the facility from a waste operation to a waste installation. The HCI Waste Transfer Station will be retained.

Regulated facility address

Darwen Resource Recovery Centre
Lower Eccleshill Road
Darwen
BB3 0RP

The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:

  • the installation
  • the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
  • the conditions of its site
  • the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
  • the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
  • and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered

2. How to view and comment on the application

If you have any comments on the application send these by 02 December 2024.

You can comment:

Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk

For advice about how to make a representation or if you are unable to make a representation via e-mail, please call 03708 506 506.

The Environment Agency will normally put any comments it receives on the public register. This includes your name but not your personal contact details. Please tell us if you do not want your response to be public.

The privacy notice for permit applicants/operators can be viewed at Privacy Notice

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