Major changes for Yorkshire waste experts

BCB Environmental Management, which wants to build an £18m electricity generating plant in Yorkshire which will produce enough energy to run about 10,000 homes, has been restructured to create a new holding company.

AWP Environmental is the new holding company of waste disposal company BCB Environmental, based in Tockwith, North Yorkshire.

Two new shareholders, Robert Goddard and Stephen McLeod, have joined the board of AWP as chairman and finance director respectively.

Phi Boardman, managing director of BCB, has also become managing director of AWP following the move.

Mr Boardman said: “The new structure is designed to facilitate attracting investment in the company's proposed £18m energy from waste (EfW) facility, that will process and make safe approximately 60,000 tonnes per year of mixed municipal and hazardous waste.”

A planning application has been submitted by BCB to open the site on Marston Moor Industrial Estate at Tockwith, near York, to North Yorkshire County Council.

Under the proposals hazardous waste would constitute only 25% of the materials handled.

The rest would be household rubbish that would previously have been sent to landfill, after the kerbside removal of all recyclable material.

The new Advanced Thermal Plant will be housed in one of the company's existing 29.000 sq ft units on the industrial site.

It will use a process that combines gasification and oxidation to totally destroy waste, while recovering significant amounts of energy as a by-product.

Under the system waste is heated to produce gas, which is oxidised to produce heat. The heat is used to produce steam, which in turn powers a turbine that generates electricity.

BCB says the plant will be carbon-neutral.