The BDR system that we use is far superior than the system Sheffield uses. Sheffield (as we would expect) have this “we know best” attitude and when it was set up refused to be part of the BDR agreement preferring to go their own way. Oddly though Sheffield has in recent months joined in with the BDR councils on ways to get a joint waste strategy.
The BDR plant at Manvers is one of the best in Europe and has a really good record of reducing landfill waste whilst at the same time providing fuel for the Ferrybridge power station. When originally planned though the usual collection of nimbys raised many objections and it was nearly cancelled. Such is the waste problem in the UK we are now approaching the need to build a sister plant in the area but just where it will go and how it would be financed is up for debate.




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