PR3 6BP, Resource Recycling Solutions Limited: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/QB3036RB/V005
Published 9 August 2024
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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 Resource Recycling Solutions Limited.
Application number
EPR/QB3036RB/V005
Regulated facility type
Resource Recycling Solutions Ltd (RRS) operate a composting facility under an installation permit, reference number EPR/ QB3036RB. The permit allows the facility to undertake composting of up to 75,000 tonnes per annum of green waste in open windrows.
RRS are seeking vary the permit to operate a closed In-Vessel Composting (IVC) system at the Iron House Farm site in addition to the existing open windrow composting (OWC) system. The IVC system would process non-hazardous food waste or comingled food and green waste primarily from kerbside collected, civic amenity and commercial waste streams. The OWC system would continue to process green waste material only. It is proposed that the facility continues to process up to 75,000 tonnes of biodegradable waste per year. The green waste only element of this will be processed through the OWC and the closed IVC system and the comingled food and green waste or food waste will be processed through the closed IVC system. An extension to the site boundary is required to facilitate the addition of the closed IVC system.
In addition, RRS are also seeking consent to screen and blend waste to produce aggregate or soil and treatment of waste wood and plant matter by chipping, shredding, cutting or pulverising as waste operation activities in the permit. Both of these activities are currently carried out as registered waste exemption at the site. The incorporation of these exempt activities will not increase the 75,000 tonnes annual throughput of of the site.
Regulated facility address
Iron House Farm
Lancaster Road
Out Rawcliffe
Preston
Lancashire
PR3 6BP
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
How to view and comment on the application
If you have any comments on the application send these by 09 September 2024.
You can comment:
Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space
Via email: pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
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