Planning bid for food waste plant
Planning approval is being sought for a plant in the Swansea Valley capable of turning food waste from over 350,000 homes into electricity and fertiliser. The South West Wales Regional Waste Consortium, which includes Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Bridgend councils, is looking to procure a regional anaerobic digestion facility to treat household waste from south west Wales. The Swansea Valley application for a plant at Pwllfawatkin, near Pontardawe, will be submitted by waste management specialists the Waste Recycling Group (WRG). The company is staging two public exhibitions so that residents local to the proposed plant have the opportunity to examine the plans before they are submitted to the planning authority. The first exhibition will be held at Gwaun Cae Gurwen Community Hall, on Monday 31 October between 10.30am and 4pm. On Tuesday November 1 the exhibition will move to Pontardawe Arts Centre between 11 am and 8 pm. Said Mike Bullard from WRG: “T...