The NEC has become one of the first local businesses to send its food waste to Severn Trent Green Power’s £13 million food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at its Coleshill sewage treatment works.
Severn Trent started constructing the plant within Coleshill sewage treatment works last year and it’s now taking in food waste from local businesses to power the site.
According to Severn Trent Green Power’s food waste anaerobic digestion expert Chris Jellett, by stopping food waste going to landfill the Coleshill plant will prevent around 8,000 tonnes of CO₂ from being released into the local environment. Severn Trent is also expecting to generate around 17,000 Megawatt Hours of electricity annually from the food waste AD plant - enough to power around 4,000 homes or the whole of Coleshill sewage treatment works and more, making the site totally self-sufficient for its electricity needs.
Brian Pell, the NEC’s director of operations, said:
“Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do and we are continually looking for new ways to make our venue more environmentally friendly. Thanks to our on-site Waste Pre-Treatment Centre, we send zero waste to landfill and are committed to ensuring that any waste that travels off site for further processing never travels more than 30 miles – this helps to save CO₂ emission during travel and keeps our costs down too.
“Severn Trent’s site is right on our doorstep, less than four miles away, so it provides us with the perfect location to send our food waste. This year, we expect to send around 120 tonnes of food waste to Coleshill to help generate a huge amount of power for the site.”
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