Newhurst Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) has been designed and built to process up to 455,000 tonnes of residual waste every year – reducing landfill, generating baseload electricity to power 80,000 homes and recovering valuable resources and by-products for reuse.
The facility was developed as a joint venture between Encyclis, the Energy-from-Waste provider, and Biffa, the waste management company.
Our facility operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, turning residual waste into much-needed source of continuous, baseload electricity for homes and businesses via the National Grid. The process is safe, sustainable and reduces dependence on fossil fuels.
But we don’t stop there. Our mission is to recover as much as we can from waste by extracting useful resources from the treatment process.
We provide a public hygiene solution, dealing with waste that cannot be reused or recycled, and would otherwise go to landfill or be exported overseas.
We produce enough baseload electricity to meet the needs of around 80,000 homes at a time when the UK needs greater energy security and to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Our treatment process produces incinerator bottom ash (IBA) that is safely removed and transformed into aggregate for construction. In addition, metals are recovered from the ash for reuse.
The heat from our process can be channelled into heating for the local community. We are developing this capability at Newhurst.
Energy-from-Waste is highly regulated to ensure safe operation and protection of the environment. Regulatory bodies such as the Environment Agency set safe emission limits and require continuous real-time monitoring.
Nothing is more important than safety. It is the first of our company values. A safe, healthy, risk-aware workplace improves the wellbeing of our team, our partners, the local community we serve and the planet we must protect.
We set stringent standards and strive to go even further, every day.
Our facility is built on a foundational partnership between Encyclis and Biffa – working together to deliver safe, efficient, continuous services.