25th November 2018
Posted by Dr Adam Read. I was fortunate to use an unexpected free afternoon on my way back from a workshop in Bristol, to check out our Warwick depot. I had been wanting to get an overview of what we are doing with the contract that is closest to the place that I call home. Collection contract SUEZ first won
19th November 2018
Posted by Dr Adam Read. Since the launch of the SUEZ recycling and recovery UK’s Resources & Waste Management Manifesto in late May, I have been somewhat busy facilitating workshops with DEFRA, key stakeholders, and some of our clients to test some of our assumptions and work through some of our recommendations in more detail. After the workshops that we
1st October 2018
Post by Dr Adam Read. SUEZ has operated Pinbrook Road Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) for five years and the contract was renewed in April 2017. We operate 18 HWRCs on behalf of Devon County Council managing 90,000 tonnes of waste per year – and approximately 80% of that waste is recyclables. In addition to the HWRC’s, we operate two
1st October 2018
Posted by Dr Adam Read. I felt it was time to get back on the road to see some more sites, this time I returned to the south west, but rather than going as far as Cornwall, my destination was Devon, and in particular Exeter. In the early 1990s I called this home as I was based at the University,
29th August 2018
After the three hour journey down from Inverness I arrive at Binn Farm where I am keen to see how the processes work here, and how they differ to the site in Aberdeen that I visited yesterday. Stop four | Binn Farm landfill and material recycling facility The last stop of the day, on route to Edinburgh Airport was at
24th August 2018
Following a successful and busy morning at the Aberdeen materials recycling facility (MRF) and refuse derived fuel (RDF) site, checking out the processing engineering my next stop was at the local household waste recycling centres that SUEZ operate on behalf of Aberdeen City Council. Stop two | Aberdeen Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) SUEZ recycling and recovery UK operate five
2nd May 2018
Posted by Dr Adam Read. It has been a busy few weeks, what with a brief stay in hospital and a number of government consultations and conferences to prepare for and deliver. I finally found some time to get down to Cornwall and check out one of SUEZ’s longest standing contracts, the Cornwall PFI (public finance initiative) for residual waste
23rd April 2018
Posted by Dr Adam Read. The energy-from-waste facility, located in Great Blakenham, Suffolk is one of our newest sites which began operating in December 2014. The facility manages residual waste from Suffolk households in partnership with Suffolk County Council, though a 25-year partnership agreement. The site can process 269,000 tonnes of waste per annum, with 175,000 tonnes coming directly from Suffolk
11th April 2018
Posted by Dr Adam Read. Middlesbrough is home to three SUEZ sites with a total capacity in excess of 550,000 tonnes per annum. The sites all operate independently, due to contractual requirements, but share experiences and developed local resilience in order to cover downtime and spare parts etc. The whole site operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
21st March 2018
Posted by Dr. Adam Read. The second site visit this year was organised at our integrated resource recovery facility at Landor Street, in the heart of industrial Birmingham. Given the post-Christmas materials uplift, it was an ideal time to see a relatively small site working to its maximum, clearing the backlog of recyclates from the West Midlands and beyond! The
