Technologies

The key technology solutions, operated by Viridor Waste (Greater Manchester) Ltd,  are now begining to come on line with the In-Vessel-Composting (IVC) facility at Waithlands in Rochdale now fully operational, producing a quality compost product and the Materials Recovery Facility at Longley Lane (MRF) currently undergoing its commissioning testing in order to achieve its completion status by early Summer 2010.

The five Mechanical Biological Treatment Facilities (MBT), four with Anaerobic Digestion (AD), are also on track and making significant progress.

Reliance Street in North Manchester is the first of these facilities due to be constructed by mid Summer 2010. Once built, the facility will undergo a 6 month testing programme to ensure that  it complies with output quality, performance criteria and legislation. 

Household Waste Recycling Centres

The Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) redevelopment programme is also progressing at speed with a total 18 HWRCs now completed under the redevelopment programme.

Two new facilities, Hurstwood Court in Bolton and Boysnope Wharf in Salford, are progressing on schedule and will be key local facilities across the network. In addition a further two key facilities have recently been completed at Bredbury Parkway in Stockport and Sinderland Road in Trafford and opened to local residents. Satisfaction surveys recently carried out reveal that 99.7% of users are either very satisfied or satisfied with the HWRCs confirming that users rate the new or upgraded facilities very highly. 

Waste Education Centres Get Top Marks for Educational Visits by being awarded the ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’ Quality Badge.

The Quality Badge combines learning and safety criteria into one award for all organisations that provide learning outside the classroom experiences.

Being awarded the Quality Badge is a real coup for all the staff at VLGM as it shows that we offer young people the type of high quality learning experiences they really benefit from. We're thrilled to get official recognition for our efforts and we look forward to welcoming even more schools and community groups from Greater Manchester to our Waste Education Centres in the future. The centre at Bolton allows groups to tour the Thermal Recovery Site, whilst in Bury, groups get the opportunity to visit a working landfill site.

For more information about waste education visits in Greater Manchester please visit www.recycleforgreatermanchester.com or contact one of our education officers on education@viridor-laing.co.uk  or call 01204 374 223. 

Love Food Hate Waste Year One Success

The Greater Manchester Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) Campaign has been running since 22nd April 2009 and has delivered a successful partnership approach to delivering an engaging and informative campaign.

 Between April 2009 and February 2010, the districts in Greater Manchester delivered 347 road shows and event, engaging with a total of 31,510 residents. This is inclusive of the 11 days of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival.

Planning for Year 2 of the campaign is well underway, and will focus on continuing to raise awareness together with supporting changing behaviour through recipe cards, cookery demonstrations and resident master classes.

Furniture Success at Lumns Lane HWRC

Since the first week in March a six month pilot project has been  collecting donations of good quality unwanted furniture for re-use on Lumns Lane HWRC. During the first month collections have totalled 1896kg of waste diverted away from landfill for re-use and over 1600kg in April 2010 to date. A second trial is being implemented on Arkwright Street HWRC, again for a 6 month trial period. Expected launch date is mid May 2010.

My Recycling Foto re-launches the Recycle for Greater Manchester Website (R4GM)

The R4GM website has been redesigned making it much more user friendly and providing much more information on waste and recycling across Greater Manchester. The launch campaign ran from 15th February until the end of March and advertised on radio, the web and on the social networking site ‘Facebook’.