Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre

Welcome

This exhibition is part of FCC Environment’s FCC commitment to inform and consult with the Environment local community about our plans for an Energy is one of Recovery Centre at our Greengairs the largest Management Complex. and waste The Scottish Government is banning all biodegradable from by January 2021. The ban will necessitate the companies development of new waste management infrastructure, it will in the UK employing also significantly reduce the need for landfill sites. around 2,500 staff and operating more FCC’s proposals will recover value from waste that would than 200 facilities have otherwise been disposed of into landfill. Central to our in Scotland, England plans for the Greengairs site would be the development of the and Wales. Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre (DERC).

The DERC is an Energy from Waste facility that will treat up The company is part of a to 300,000 tonnes of non-hazardous residual waste each global group with a strong year, exporting circa 25.5MW of electricity (enough to power heritage in providing approximately 40,000 homes). The facility would also have the services for communities potential to supply heat to local homes and businesses. and businesses. FCC Environment’s vision is The plans for the DERC form part of a series of improvements to be the environmental being proposed at the Greengairs Waste Management company of choice, Complex, which includes a significant reduction in the delivering change for a remaining capacity and extent of landfill operations from sustainable future. The those which currently have planning consent. services it provides include:

The following information boards provide details on the Municipal Services proposals and the key content of the planning application Energy Recovery to be submitted by FCC Environment later this year. Should the planning application be approved, it is anticipated that Recycling work will commence on-site in mid 2020, with the facility Waste Processing opening in mid-2023. and Disposal Business Waste Solutions

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Why is FCC developing this facility?

In June 2010 the Scottish Government published Scotland’s Plan. The Plan promotes a series of initiatives aimed at delivering ambitious targets for the long-term management of Scotland’s waste.

The Waste (Scotland) Regulations were passed Artists Impression of the DERC by the Scottish Parliament in May 2012, with the express intention of implementing the requirements of the Zero Waste Plan. The plan includes a ban on the landfilling of food, paper, garden and any other before the 1st January 2021.

The purpose of the landfill ban is to ensure that more value is taken from the waste that is generated in Scotland (a combination of more recycling or energy generation) and less greenhouse gas emissions are released and recovery will dramatically reduce from landfill sites. the amount of waste that is disposed of to landfill, there will remain a need for certain In order to meet the targets set by the Scottish types of waste to be landfilled. Accordingly, Government, it will be necessary to develop whilst a number of landfill sites are expected more waste management facilities within to close in 2021, there will still be a need for Scotland, including Energy Recovery Facilities a number of strategic facilities to remain like the DERC. open. In recognition of this, FCC is proposing to continue the operation of Greengairs Whilst the landfill ban and further recycling Landfill site, but at a much-reduced scale.

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The Site

The Greengairs Waste Management Complex is located in North Lanarkshire approximately 2.3km to the north-east of Airdrie and 3.3km to the south-east of Cumbernauld.

More specifically it is located immediately to the south of the villages of Wattston and Greengairs Aerial view and to the north of the village of Plains. The site of the proposed development is to the west of the existing landfill as shown below.

Other planning consents have been granted for built waste management infrastructure at the landfill site, which include:

••The permanent development of a mechanical treatment facility with a waste throughput of 210,000 tonnes per year

••The development of a Soil, Aggregate and Ash Recycling Facility Site– this facility benefits Location plan from temporary planning consent to 2038

••The development of a Materials Recycling The Greengairs Waste Management Complex Facility – this facility benefits from temporary and the surrounding area have been subject planning consent to 2038 to coal mining and quarrying since the 1840’s with opencast mining being undertaken ••The development of a 9-turbine wind farm until the early 1980’s. Planning permission was granted in 1988 for the restoration of the opencast workings through landfilling. Landfill operations continue at the site today, with the current planning permission providing for the disposal of non- until 2038.

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Who is FCC?

FCC Environment is one of the UK’s leading waste and resource management companies. Our approach is to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources.

FCC Environment employs around 2,500 The MRERC receives ‘residual’ non-hazardous people across the UK and operates a range waste collected by both the City of Edinburgh of waste management sites including energy Council and Midlothian Council that would from waste (EfW) plants, material recycling otherwise go to landfill. facilities (MRF), household waste recycling centres (HWRC’s), waste transfer stations (WTS) Planning consent for the MRERC was and landfill sites. granted in October 2015, with the site becoming fully operational in April 2019. FCC currently operates six energy from waste facilities across the UK, this includes The MRERC is similar to the proposed the recently opened Millerhill Recycling Drumgray facility at Greengairs and site Energy Recovery Centre (MRERC) at Millerhill, visits are available to interested parties. Midlothian – just outside Edinburgh. More information can be found at: www.millerhill.fccenvironment.co.uk

Artists Impression of the MRERC submitted with The MRERC – May 2019 the Planning Application

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The Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre (DERC)

The Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre (DERC) would be developed for the thermal treatment of up to 300,000 tonnes of residual non-hazardous waste (waste that cannot be economically or practically reused or recycled) generated by households and businesses, each year.

In addition to the main Energy Recovery Centre (ERC), the planning application would Artists Impression of the DERC also include the following elements:

••A Mechanical Pre-Treatment Plant which would extract recyclables from mixed waste brought to the Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre

••Reorganisation of the existing infrastructure at the entrance to the Greengairs Waste Management Complex Masterplan ••An extension to the existing Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) Processing Area (to allow for recycling of Ash from the DERC)

••Improvements to the private access road leading from Greengairs Road to Meikle Drumgray Road

••Ancillary infrastructure including internal access road, drainage, lighting and landscaping

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The Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre (DERC)

The Mechanical Pre-Treatment Plant will treat up to 200,000 tonnes of waste each year.

It will recover up to 10,000 tonnes of recyclate Artists Impression of the DERC which will be sent for reprocessing. The remaining waste would be taken to the Energy Recovery Centre, along with an additional 110,000 tonnes of pre-treated residual waste. This will be treated to generate electricity and heat for export from the site.

The DERC would be capable of exporting up to 25.5 MW of electricity to the local electricity grid. The facility would also have the capability to export heat to local heat users including residential and commercial developments which require a heat source. Technology Provider i FCC are in the process of choosing When configured for maximum electricity a technology provider for the DERC. generation the facility would be able to However, any provider they choose provide enough power for 40,000 homes. will be using established and proven The DERC would produce approximately technology similar to that which is 65,000 tonnes of Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA) included in all of the Company’s Energy each year, which will be processed on an Plants in the UK, including the Millerhill extension to the existing on-site IBA processing facility near Edinburgh. area (which currently processes IBA from the Millerhill facility) to recover metals, prior to being sorted into different grades of recycled aggregate for use in the construction industry subject to agreement with SEPA.

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How will the Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre work?

Process diagram

1a. Mixed residual waste is delivered to the 5. Bottom ash is produced which will be taken site and taken to the Pre-Treatment facility. to the IBA Processing Area. Metals will be Here recyclables are extracted. The recovered from the IBA and it will then be residual waste remaining after processing sorted into varying grades of aggregate would be transferred to the Energy to be used in the local construction market Recovery Centre by vehicle. subject to SEPA approval.

1b. Pre-sorted waste, which has had recyclables 6. The gases produced by the combustion already removed, would be direct delivered process are cleaned in the pollution to the Energy Recovery Centre. control system using activated carbon and lime and are then filtered before 2. From the storage bunker in the Energy being released into the atmosphere and Recovery Centre the waste is lifted and fed continually monitored as required and into a feed chute by overhead cranes. controlled by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). 3. Using proven Energy from Waste Recovery technology, the waste is combusted 7. The residues filtered from the combustion under controlled conditions at a high gases are stored in dedicated silos and temperature to generate heat which is then removed and transported in sealed used to raise steam in a boiler. tankers from the site to a specialist treatment facility. 4. The steam is then used to drive a steam turbine which generates electricity. At this point steam can be extracted to generate hot water to be exported in a district heating network or used for cooling in heat exchangers.

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Planning Process/EIA/PPC

The DERC will require Planning Permission and FCC are in the process of preparing the i planning application which will include Biodegradable waste ban the following documents: Scotland’s Government is banning the landfill of all biodegradable waste by

••Application Forms and Drawings ••Planning Statement 2021 ••Pre-Application Consultation (PAC) Report ••Transport Assessment ••Heat and Power Plan The EIA will consider the effects of the DERC ••Carbon Assessment and the other associated development ••Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) at the Greengairs Waste Management Complex. It will also assess the cumulative environmental effects that could arise if The EIA will be undertaken to enable the other consented developments in the area likely significant effects of the proposed were also to be constructed including the development to be assessed by North Drumshangie Energy from Waste Facility and Lanarkshire Council, relevant technical the Greengairs East and West Wind Farms. consultees and members of the public. The scope of the EIA has yet to be agreed In addition, the facility would not be able with North Lanarkshire Council but at this to operate without a Pollution Prevention stage it is anticipated that it will consider and Control (PPC) Permit issued by the the following topic areas: Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). It is proposed that the PPC Permit application is submitted at the same time as ••Alternatives Considered the Planning Application. ••Detailed Scheme Description ••Traffic and Transportation FCC are also in the process of preparing ••Landscape and Visual Impact a separate planning application for a ••Ecology and Nature Conservation reduction of the extent of Greengairs ••Ground Conditions and Hydrogeology Landfill Site. The amendments to the landfill ••Surface Waters and Flood Risk site will take into account the introduction ••Air Quality and Human Health of the DERC development and the Scottish ••Noise and Vibration Government’s ban on the landfill of ••Archaeology and Human Health biodegradable waste by 2021. ••Socio-Economics

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Benefits/Opportunities

Diversion from Landfill Electricity FCC is committed to the delivery of the DERC. In addition to heat, the DERC would be Once developed it will provide the Scottish capable of exporting up to 25.5MW of Government with greater certainty with electricity to the local electricity grid, which the diversion of biodegradable waste from is enough to meet the average needs of circa landfill, in line with its “zero waste” strategy. 40,000 homes.

Apprenticeships Jobs FCC Environment operate its own The proposed facility will create up to 40 apprenticeship programme and the operational jobs, and employ around 400 DERC will create apprenticeships on an people at the peak of the construction phase. on-going basis.

Bottom ash Local suppliers & contractors Is produced which will be processed From providing services directly to FCC and could be used as an aggregate in Environment over the lifetime of the DERC, the construction industry subject to the to working with our construction contractor agreement of SEPA. or subcontractors, FCC always seeks to work with local suppliers and contractors where possible.

FCC is always open and willing to discuss other local benefits and opportunities that could arise from the development of the DERC.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will the Greengairs Landfill Q: Will the facility pollute the air? remain operational? A: All facilities that recover energy from A: Yes, albeit on a smaller scale. Whilst the waste are required to meet strict emission Scottish Government is introducing a landfill limits under the European Union Industrial ban on biodegradable waste on the 1st Emissions Directive. The facility would January 2021, landfill will remain the only also operate under a PPC Permit, issued option for the end disposal of certain waste and regulated by SEPA. The proposed types. It is also expected that a number of development will be designed to comply landfill sites will close within the central with all of the limits and regulations part of Scotland following the landfill ban, imposed and emissions will be continuously requiring the retention of a smaller number monitored as well as being independently of strategic facilities. checked by SEPA.

In recognition of this FCC is planning to FCC is currently undertaking a detailed Air retain Greengairs Landfill site but remain Quality Assessment, which will examine the committed to reducing the scale of future likely emissions associated with the DERC and landfill operations and to the final restoration will ensure that all emissions will meet the of the site within the currently consented required permit limits set by SEPA. timescales (by 2038).

Q: Will waste be stored outside? Q: Will the plant be noisy? A: No. All waste delivered to the DERC will be A: No. A detailed noise assessment is being unloaded and handled within the buildings. carried out as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment. Once the facility is operational, noise will be monitored and maintained within Q: How many trucks will deliver the limits set by North Lanarkshire Council daily to the site? Environmental Health Officers. A: Following the planned revisions to the Greengairs Landfill site and the development of the DERC, there will be approximately 124 Q: Will it smell? HGV movements to the site each day. This is A: No. Several measures will be included in similar to the number that currently visit the the design of the DERC to ensure the potential site on a daily basis. for odours are minimised. Furthermore, once operational, amenity issues would be controlled through the site’s Pollution Prevention Control Permit, which will be issued and regulated by SEPA.

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What’s Next?

Following this first round of public events, the development team will review the feedback received, and in conjunction with on-going discussions with key stakeholders, FCC will display refined proposals during a second round of public events to be held later this summer, in advance of the submission of the planning application in September 2019.

FCC Environment wants to ensure that the local community For more has their say on the proposals and consultation will information and continue throughout the development process. We would for feedback to encourage you to complete a questionnaire and return it to the team please us today, or via the details opposite. contact us in the following ways:

Email Proposed timeline fccenvironment@ libertyonecomms.co.uk September 2019 Phone Planning and permit applications submitted 0131 357 2454 Web Spring / Summer 2020 www.drumgray. Planning and permit applications determined fccenvironment.co.uk If planning applications are approved by North Post Lanarkshire Council FCC Environment c/o Liberty One Autumn / Winter 2020 Work commences on-site Communications, 93 George Street, Mid 2023 Proposed opening Edinburgh, EH2 3ES

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Revised Greengairs Landfill Proposals

Following the ban and the development of the DERC, landfill will remain the only option for the end disposal of certain process residues and other .

In recognition of this, FCC are planning Consented landfill restoration to retain Greengairs Landfill Site but are committed to reducing the scale of future landfill operations within the currently consented timescales (by 2038). The reduced landfill operations would see the remaining space within the landfill site reduce from over 11million m3 to 2.5million m3.

The proposed significant reduction in the remaining capacity and extent of landfill operations will result in a smaller, much reduced restoration landform as illustrated below.

This will require a revision to the existing planning permission. As such, FCC propose to submit a new planning application to North Lanarkshire Council.

The planning application for the revised landfill will be submitted separately to that for the Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre.

Proposed landfill restoration

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