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EA approves application to export RDF for first time
Source: Materials Recycling Week
Refuse derived fuel (RDF) is to be exported for the first time after the Environment Agency recently approved an application for the move.
Shanks Waste Management will export 40,000 tonnes of the fuel pellets to Holland and Germany in the next 12 months to be used as feedstock in energy from waste facilities.
RDF is made from treated municipal solid waste, which adds calorific value, making it safe to burn as a fuel.
A spokesperson for the EA refuted claims made in The Telegraph that the UK is using RDF as a way of legalising the export of household waste for burning. She said: “RDF is not household waste. RDF is derived from waste that has been through a series of processes, some chemical, to add calorific value including drying, sorting, grading and shredding. It is then turned into pellets or bales. It is not the contents of your kitchen bin. It’s not a change in label - it is a change of product.
“RDF for recovery and recycling can be exported from the UK to other EU countries if approval is granted. Energy recovery of a fuel is not dumping. Exporting waste overseas to be dumped is illegal.”
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