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• Local MP Jim Paice Visits Waterbeach Waste Management Park: Company [01/01/2009]
Jim Paice, MP for South East Cambridgeshire visited Donarbon’s Waste Management Park at Waterbeach, to see the company’s expanding recycling and composting facilities and the progress being made with building its new Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) facility, which will treat all of Cambridgeshire’s non-recycled black bin rubbish. As well as meeting senior management and Donarbon’s recycling staff, Jim Paice, whose constituency covers Waterbeach, was given a guided tour of the 400 acre site to see for himself how the company converts over 60,000 tonnes of food and garden waste annually from across Cambridgeshire into compost that local farmers are queuing up to use and the facilities Donarbon has to take cans, paper, glass, timber and construction waste from local councils and businesses for recycling. In particular, Jim Paice, who is also Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was keen to see the development of the MBT plant, the first of its kind in the East of England, which will ensure that Cambridgeshire meets stringent EU Landfill Directive Targets, and the Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Plant run by Andigestion on Donarbon’s waste management park, which Mr. Paice sees as ‘win-win’ technology, treating biodegradable liquid waste and producing methane gas as a by-product, which is used to generate electricity. Mr Paice said: “Companies like Donarbon are absolutely vital if the UK is to rise from its lowly position at the bottom of the EU league table for recycling. I have been very impressed with what I have seen on the site and the way Donarbon are maximising the use of resources and sending as little as possible to landfill”. Commenting on the visit, Mark Davenport, Managing Director for Donarbon said, “We are very pleased with the obvious interest that Jim Paice showed in all our operations. It was useful for us to be able to show him how the future of waste management and recycling will progress in his constituency and make him aware how the current down turn in the economy is affecting a small to medium enterprise like ours in Cambridgeshire”. |