The Sheepbridge Resource Park will generate renewable energy and recycle material that would usually have gone to landfill. It will generate enough renewable electricity to supply 16,000 households in Chesterfield – 38% of the town's requirement – and recycle 13,000 tonnes of material.

The Sheepbridge Resource Park will accept a total of around 75,000 tonnes of waste per annum for recycling and energy production. This tonnage will be split with about 20,000 tonnes going for sorting in the Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) and 55,000 tonnes going directly for energy generation in the Energy Recovery Building.

Vehicles for waste delivery will come into the site and drive onto the weighbridge, which will be some 125m from the entrance gates to ensure any potential queuing does not go back out onto the public highway. At the weighbridge it will be decided if the waste is to go to the Materials Recycling Facility or directly to the Energy Recovery Building. The weighbridge will monitor the delivery trucks using CCTV to ensure that any waste materials coming into the Resource Park comply with the Environmental Permit and Operating Licence.

Once the delivery trucks have delivered to the relevant plant, they will tare off on the second weighbridge to ensure accurate weights are taken for every load.

Waste materials will come onto the Resource Park and will leave either as raw material for reprocessing elsewhere, as heat and electricity or as manufactured products. It is intended to use the ash from the Energy Recovery Building for secondary aggregates, however, if this is not the case then a worst case scenario will be that only 6% of the incoming waste by weight will require landfill disposal.

 

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