The NESS Energy Project is an

incinerator Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-energy facilities. Incineration and other high ...

currently in full operation in

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, UK. It is situated in East Tullos Industrial Estate on a site formerly used for gas storage.

History

In February 2022, construction workers staged a walkout in a dispute over unpaid wages.

Operation

The facility is designed to burn up to 150,000 tonnes of material per year, consisting of non-recyclable waste from Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council, and

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. The facility will be operated by

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, who were awarded a contract worth approximately 400 million euros (£371 million) for the construction of the facility and its operation over 20 years. The

incinerator bottom ash Incinerator bottom ash (IBA) is a form of ash produced in incineration facilities. This material is discharged from the moving grate of municipal solid waste incinerators. Once IBA is processed by removing contaminants, it can be used as an aggrega ...

produced by the facility will be transported to a state of the art processing facility, where many of the metals which would have been lost to landfill will be recovered and sent for further processing before resmelting into recycled materials. The remaining cleaned sand, gravels and aggregates are suitable for re-use in certain construction projects throughout Eastern Scotland and off set the carbon generated from quarrying the equivalent volume of raw materials. .

References

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