Norfolk County Council has agreed a £5 million deal to double the amount of waste sent for incineration in Suffolk.
Norfolk County Council has agreed a new multi-million-pound deal which will see more of the county’s household waste sent to Suffolk to be burned for energy.
The agreement will double the amount of residual waste sent to the energy-from-waste facility at Great Blakenham, near Ipswich, from around 20,000 tonnes to approximately 40,000 tonnes a year.
Residual waste is rubbish left after recyclable material has been removed.
The Great Blakenham facility burns the waste at high temperatures, using the process to generate electricity while recovering some metals and other materials.
Norfolk and Suffolk county councils have worked together on waste disposal arrangements at the plant for more than a decade.
The new two-year contract is worth around £5 million.
There is also an option to extend the agreement for a further three years, which would be worth an additional £7.5 million.
Norfolk County Council says using energy-from-waste facilities forms part of its approach to dealing with rubbish which cannot be recycled while reducing reliance on landfill.
The Great Blakenham plant has capacity to process hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste each year from Suffolk and other areas.

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