WATERBEACH WASTE MANAGEMENT PARK
The Waste Management Park (click here for directions and contact details) covers 400 acres and is Donarbon’s main site, containing the company’s head offices and an extensive range of waste management plant and infrastructure.
The park is designated as a major waste facility in Cambridgeshire County Council’s Minerals and Waste Local Plan and therefore, as well as the existing facilities listed below, the park may see future developments of waste management infrastructure as Cambridgeshire’s population grows, new businesses come to the area and the nature of waste changes.
The facilities at the Waste Management Park include;
- MBT Plant which sorts recyclable materials from mixed household rubbish delivered by Cambridgeshire councils and produces a compost-like material with the organic fraction
- Visitor and Education Centre for schools and local interest groups to come and find out what happens to their waste.
- Windrow Composting site which composts household garden waste from the Household Waste Recycling Centres in Cambridgeshire and also takes similar waste from landscape gardeners, tree surgeons and grounds maintenance contractors.
- In-Vessel Composting Plant which takes mixed household kitchen and garden waste from Cambridgeshire councils, and food waste from pubs, restaurants, hotels etc. collected by Donarbon’s trade waste service.
- Construction and demolition and skip wastes drop off, recovery and recycling which takes waste directly delivered by local builders and other tradesmen, plus from Donarbon’s own Skip Hire Service and separates materials such as concrete and brick rubble, soil, timber and scrap metals for recycling.
- Skip hire and wheeled bin collection service; Donarbon’s main trade waste recycling and collection service and skip hire to householders, operates out of Waterbeach, where we have a wide range of vehicles and skip and bin sizes for businesses, for mixed and recyclable waste.
- Waste transfer and drop off for council and trade waste; vehicles can drop off waste in a purpose built building and stay on tarmac and concrete roads at all times. Contractors’ vehicles do not go onto the landfill site.
- Landfill; the Waterbeach site has extensive landfill capacity.
- Renewable Energy production from landfill gas.
- A conservation area.
- Asbestos Drop Off for the Cambridgeshire residents.
- A supply of Free Compost for the public to collect.
- A large supply of soil conditioner for farmers, landscape gardeners, horticulturalists etc. to collect on a commercial basis.
- Sister company Dickersons supply a wide range of sand, gravel and aggregates, including recycled aggregates from the Waterbeach site.
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Donarbon deals with around 300,000 tonnes of waste of year, of which;
- 55% currently goes to landfill (this will reduce substantially when the MBT plant is fully operational).
- 45% is recycled or composted, including green waste, construction/demolition waste, paper, cardboard, glass and metals.
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