Located on a newly developed site in the London Sustainable Industries Park, the Dagenham facility is a combination of in-vessel composting and anaerobic digestion technology. It has a processing capacity of about 50,000 tonnes of organic waste per year.
The facility is designed to process food waste with an upfront separation of organics from non-digestable materials such as paper, glass and plastics.
The facility’s second stage anaerobic digestion process is followed by down-stream pasteurization of the digestate that allows the plant to comply production of fertilizer with the PAS110 standard.
TEG chief executive Mick Fishwick said combined anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting sites offer front-end reliability of acceptance and flexibility on feedstock, enabling the company to process a wide variety of waste streams including food waste only, green waste only or co-mingled organic waste.
"In addition, they produce natural organic fertilizer for use on the land and also valuable energy from waste which is fed into the national grid," Fishwick added.
About 1.5MW of electricity produced at the facility would suffice to power about 2,000 homes.
UTS Biogas managing director Mike Bullard said, "We expect this plant to draw visitors not only from the United Kingdom but world-wide due to its location, size and strategic importance in a global environment that needs sustainable solutions for both energy and waste."
