JPS secures food waste capital
John Pointon and Sons (JPS), the rendering and recycling company based in Staffordshire, has secured a £1.44m capital grant fund from environmental agency WRAP and Advantage West Midlands (AWM). The funding will contribute to a £12m renewable energy facility in Cheddleton.
The Food Waste Anaerobic Digestion (AD) and renewable energy facility will have the ability to recycle 60,000 tonnes of waste each year.
The new development is part of a proposed Energy Resource Centre (ERC) on the existing site and will now include a regional AD facility for the collection and treatment of commercial and industrial food waste with recovery to renewable energy.
Up to 50 jobs are expected to be created once the plant has been completed.
The company secured the capital funding grant from WRAP and AWM’s food waste capital fund programme.
The plant is expected to produce more than two megawatts of electricity from food waste which currently goes to landfill.
Barney Williams, technical director at JPS, said: “We are looking forward to developing our AD facility as a natural symbiosis between our core business, developed over the past 30 years, and the development of our future renewable energy strategy. It is one of the most exciting projects in the region and it stands out as a major renewable energy development in the UK.”
