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Milestone reached on £252m energy recovery facility

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A major milestone has been achieved in the construction of Viridor’s £252m Avonmouth Energy Recovery Facility (ERF), near Bristol, with contractor CNIM handing over the site.The plant, which is currently receiving non-recyclable waste from Somerset Waste Partnership (up to 120,000 tonnes) and the West of England Waste Partnership (120,000 tonnes) as part of the commissioning process, has been designed to divert 320,000 tonnes of this residual waste away from landfill.The ERF will also generate up to 307GWh of electricity annually which will power the facility itself and export enough energy to power the equivalent of 84,000 homes.