Work is underway on the largest clinical waste treatment plant built in the UK for 20 years at an existing biomass facility site in Stoke-on-Trent.
Waste Energy Power Partners (WEPP) has completed its purchase of the building on Scotia Business Park, following planning approval in March 2020. Construction has begun on the £25 million, 16,000 tonne per annum capacity Clinical Energy Recovery Facility, which is expected to be fully operational by Q3 2021.
The current two and-a-half acre site is being re-developed as a state-of-the-art facility to safely and effectively treat clinical and other hazardous waste streams, and to generate electricity that will be put into the local grid. It will use both SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) and SNCR (Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction) to filter emissions before being discharged to the air, making it one of the lowest emitting sites in the UK.
The project is being financed by Equitix, a leading investor in core infrastructure and energy efficiency assets in the UK and Europe. It is their second collaboration with WEPP in the specialist clinical waste sector following the funding of a similar 8,000 tonnes per annum plant in Malvern, Worcestershire that is currently being commissioned. Both plants will operate under the Clinitek brand.