Yet another... recycling plant fire

[Mr GrimNasty]

Digga said:

As I think I've previously said, there are two basic streams of revenue in waste:

1. collection
2. sorting and processing

The first bit is relatively easy, but the second can often be marginal and is certainly more complex. If you can conveniently side-step the second part of the equation, it is very easy money, irrespective of insurance claims or payouts.

In about 1970 before we all had to mess around with 23 bins collected every 6 months, they had plants that managed to separate most of the recyclables from all the rubbish, metal differentiation, glass, plastics, paper/material. Worked perfectly like magic. Nowt like progress is there!

[PugwasHDJ80]

Digga said:

As I think I've previously said, there are two basic streams of revenue in waste:

1. collection
2. sorting and processing

The first bit is relatively easy, but the second can often be marginal and is certainly more complex. If you can conveniently side-step the second part of the equation, it is very easy money, irrespective of insurance claims or payouts.

nah easy peasy we just need to setup more WfE plants

Holland, Denmark and Germany have loads of them, but we just keep landfilling stuff.

As everyone has noticed rubbish tends to burn very well, so you might as well incinerate/gassify it and gain energy. Lots of these sort of plants can also supply warm water for free to nearby residents. Everyone wins!

The ash even gets used in cement......

[br d]

Bugger, today's fire is the place I use. We're really busy too, how inconsiderate of them.

[V8mate]

Is that the Bywaters place?

[br d]

V8mate said:

Is that the Bywaters place?

No, GB Macks, the big one a couple of years ago was Brewsters which is next door.
Spoke to them just now, they got a call at 12:30am to say the main shed was on fire, it still is, no way of judging the extent of the damage yet. This place is very successful and they have recently spent a lot on re-branding and new vehicles, can't see it being an insurance job.

[Chrisgr31]

Quite often the recycling self combusts. Certainly I suspect that it is going to get more and more difficult to insure buildings in which recycling takes place. The site I was involved in had "recycling" heaped in it. The insurance company was so concerned about it self combusting they required it to be sprayed with water 24 hours a day 7 days a week until it had all been removed from site. So not only had the fact it was all mixed and decomposing meant it had to go to landfill, it was soaking wet so weighed about 4 times as much and landfill is payable on weight! A large amount of which was water!

[BertieWooster]

And another one, this time in Wiltshire.

[saaby93]

I'm surprised the headline isnt

Fire breaks out at Wiltshire 'recycling' plant

[Fartomatic5000]

Recycling breaks out at Wiltshire fire plant.

[dandarez]

It's still burning according to the local news tonight after residents have been complaining about air quality.

On Saturday 2 Aug 'robust measures' were going to be used.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-286...

Health 'experts' have said there was nothing to worry about
...no, because they're not breathing the crap in!

[cahami]

And another in rainham essex http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/waste-... Are these all accidental or is something really going on here? It seems to happen on a weekly basis.

[wiggy001]

And if it all gets a bit too much, do a runner and let the Environment Agency tidy up the mess for you: clicky

[IroningMan]

dandarez said:

It's still burning according to the local news tonight after residents have been complaining about air quality.

On Saturday 2 Aug 'robust measures' were going to be used.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-286...

Health 'experts' have said there was nothing to worry about
...no, because they're not breathing the crap in!

There's nothing to worry about - and yet apparently it's not safe to burn the stuff for power generation?

[saaby93]

Another
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshi...

[Scuffers]

saaby93 said:

Another
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshi...

news earlier was claiming it was a dis-used industrial unit?

[wiggy001]

I've lost count of the number of times this one has caught fire now clicky

[Superhoop]

I rode past this on the way to work this morning and was thinking exactly the same thing. It's only about a month since the last fire there

[AJS-]

I expect a busy weekend for fire crews as Scotland dominates the news.

[Pesty]

Digga said:

Not a fire, but other waste management transgressions. good to see some decent sentences dished-out: http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/tw...

I know that guy.

FFs I walk my dog around there

[bostin01]

They keep happening.

Would it not be easier just build more purpose built incinerators for electricity generation, rather trying to recycle and and all that free energy go to waste when it catches fire anyway?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-303673...