MBT plants

More bits of information on MBT plants:

1. Viridor (prospective bidders for the Cardiff Bay Plant) are putting in an application for a small "Energy from Waste" (EfW) plant at Exeter, and are being opposed by local Exeter FOE group whose counter proposal is for an MBT plant

2. Northants and Milton Keynes Councils are in process of getting together on a regional waste strategy and the report attached seems to show they do not favour EFW. (We know that nearby Norfolk and Cambridgeshire are going for MBT)3. COSTS!! Cardiff City Council report costed a EfW plant to handle 400,000 - 500,000 million (have I the figures right?) tonnes of waste at £500 million and MBT to handle equivalent amounts of waste at £800 million. A 70,000 tonnes MBT plant is to built at Falkirk at cost of £18 million. Multiply by ten and we get nowhere near £800 million. Where are those responsible for the Cardiff report getting their figures from? www.rts-ad.co.uk
I have been told that to handle 500,000 tonnes of waste, preferably three MBT plants would be needed, at total capital cost (for the three plants) of about £150 million. That information was obtained by telephone call this morning to his German parent company, who have a brand new AD plant just started up at Bremen handling about 100,000 tonnes and costing - if I heard him right - 50-60 million euros (£40 million).