Wakefield Waste

The largest is an eco-park which occupies a nine-hectare former colliery site and incorporates facilities to handle all domestic waste generated by the local authority area for the next 25 years.

The facilities include autoclaves, anaerobic digestion, materials recycling facility, composting, a combined heat and power plant, household waste recycling centre and a visitor centre. The latter is an environmentally friendly building constructed using recycled materials and incorporating rainwater collection and heat recovery.