The Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility (TV ERF) will serve more than 1.5 million people living and working across the North-East by providing a sustainable, safe and reliable solution for treating the region’s general rubbish – reducing the need to send this waste to landfill in future.
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The TV ERF is being developed by a partnership of seven councils across the North-East. The councils involved in the project are:
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The best way to avoid waste is to reduce consumption, re-use products and packaging until they are no longer fit for purpose; and to then recycle as much as you can.
The TV ERF partner authorities are committed to reducing waste and recycling as much as possible, but there will always be some rubbish left over that needs to be safely dealt with. This is known as “residual waste”.
Landfill is the option of last resort for disposing of residual waste because the value of the materials is lost forever, and it also contributes significantly to climate change by releasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The TV ERF project will help the partner authorities meet their ambition of sending zero residual waste to landfill in future by putting this waste to good use instead.
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