First Industrial-scale Municipal Solid Waste to Biofuel Facility Opens

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4. We have a CHP plant that burns genuine wood waste ...

... not from forests but from the mixed wood collected at the dump - sorry, "Recycling Centre" - which
is mostly broken fences, packaging, broken furniture with very little "unprocessed plant wood" (for
want of a better term).

There was a fuss about it during the planning phase but I actually chimed in to defend it as
the prime objection (i.e., other than simple NIMBY) were the traffic changes from the lorries bringing
wood from the dump to the plant. The wood was previously being trucked to a CHP plant in a different
county. (Previous to that, it was shoved in a land-fill ...)

I pointed out that the route from the dump to the plant was less than a mile, most of which was through
a light industry estate and not past any schools, hospitals, old folk's homes or anything. The first part
of that route was along the same roads as currently used for the remote CHP destination and, by cutting
the road miles down, not only was the safety aspect improved by the new plant but it saved on fuel costs
and pollution from traffic. (The pollution risk due to the plant itself had been adequately covered already.)

We are keeping an eye on the fuel stream for the plant - precisely to avoid it being used as an excuse
for felling trees - but, so far, it is meeting all the goals.