A RECYCLING company is doubling the amount of electricity it generates from a landfill site near York.
Yorwaste is increasing the amount of electricity it generates from its Harewood Whin landfill site, in Rufforth, to six mega watts, enough to power more than 6,000 homes.
Three new generators, fuelled by gases produced by decomposing landfill materials, will each provide one mega watt of electricity to the national grid. They will double the current output of three mega watts produced by existing generators.
Yorwaste managing director Steve Grieve said: “This is an ecologically important development as it involves the sustainable generation of electricity without leaving a major carbon footprint.”
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