Visit to Allerton Waste Recovery Park

The Keighley Association of Engineers is pleased to announce our April event in our 2023 syllabus, a visit to Allerton Waste Recovery Park, Knaresborough.

Allerton Waste Recovery Park is a state-of-the-art centre where we will see the present and the future of recycling a wide variety of waste.

Allerton Waste Recovery Park is a state-of-the-art facility treating ‘black bag’ waste from households across the county.

The site became operational in March 2018 and employs 90 local people. Through a unique combination of three technologies, it is reducing the amount of household waste from North Yorkshire being sent to landfill by at least 90%.

This is done by:

• Sorting ‘black bag’ waste using mechanical treatment technology to extract and recycle items.
• Processing around 40,000 tonnes of food and organic waste each year to generate renewable energy.
• Using the remaining non-recyclable waste to generate enough energy to power at least 40,000 homes.

Please let John McCluskey know you are coming by Friday 14th April to assist with planning (this is open to ladies/guests) at jjmccluskey@btopenworld.com 07585 126503

You can see much more about Allerton Park on their website

View the flyer for the visit to Allerton Waster Recovery Park