Energy Recovery by Incineration

At RED Industries, we prioritise identifying and handling wastes that can be recycled or recovered to maximise their potential usefulness while ensuring appropriate disposal and active waste management in line with the waste hierarchy. Organic hazardous wastes, which have significant untapped energy value, can be treated, or disposed of safely while generating electricity or used as a fuel in industrial-scale production of products like cement, iron, and steel.

Waste can be used as a heat source to generate energy or electricity, which has a significant environmental benefit, reduces resource depletion and carbon footprint, and diverts hazardous wastes away from less environmentally appropriate routes. The high temperatures of these processes destroy the hazardous components of the wastes while recovering their energy, making them a robust treatment method.

RED Industries can help you in identifying the appropriate treatment methods for your wastes, maximising their potential for reuse, and providing safe disposal.

Effective Waste-to-Energy Incineration

The types of materials we regularly handle and direct to energy from waste incineration include:

Highly Controlled Incineration Process

RED Industries is able to channel hazardous wastes through highly controlled incineration processes, recovering their energy value. The input specifications of wastes being used for energy are rigorously controlled and managed, with multiple checks in place to ensure that emissions fall within regulated limits. Our full pre-treatment of waste ensures releases to the environment fall within restricted constraints at the recycling facility.

Combustion products from waste burning can also be used in iron and steel production and cement manufacture, but the energy inputs must meet strict specifications to prevent contamination in finished products. RED Industries helps to support the manufacturing process while minimising environmental impact.

Hazardous Waste Energy Recovery

RED Industries has been successfully treating hazardous waste with energy recovery value for many years. Our advanced and experienced capabilities in preparing material for energy recovery have allowed us to partner with facilities that use hazardous waste to generate heat and power. To achieve the tightly controlled input specifications required for these processes, we ensure we have a detailed understanding of your waste.This allows us to blend together suitable materials that do not contain contaminants likely to cause issues at the receiving site, nor in the process to which it will be introduced.

Our team also prepares and provides material with an agreed energy or calorific value to ensure that the process behaves in a controlled and predicted manner, achieving the intended benefit while your waste undergoes treatment. In the case of limited treatment capacity for energy recovery from hazardous waste in the UK, EFW incineration is the most appropriate treatment and disposal option for many wastes produced here. This allows us to maximise the resource value of the waste while keeping our environmental footprint low.

Trusted European Network for Hazardous Waste Treatment

RED Industries has established a trusted network of European partners to provide a robust options for the treatment of resource intensive hazardous wastes. Our consistent delivery of correctly specified and compliant material has earned us this position

Exporting hazardous waste from the UK to energy recovery facilities requires compliance with the highly regulated Transfrontier Shipment of Wastes regulations, under an international agreement with other developed countries. The Environment Agency in the UK and its counterparts in the receiving countries regulate the process.

RED Industries successfully navigates the strict application process to obtain consent to ship each waste stream to an approved facility. Our waste is suitable for energy recovery and is transported using approved hauliers and routes, securely contained in transit to its final treatment destination.

External Waste Networking

RED Industries has extensive experience in exporting hazardous wastes from the UK to energy recovery facilities across Europe. Our established partnerships with a reliable network of organisations enable us to provide a dependable option for the treatment of your waste. We consistently deliver the correctly specified material, compliantly and safely, to their receiving sites.

The process of exporting hazardous wastes is complex and highly regulated under the Transfrontier Shipment of Wastes regulations. RED Industries expertly complies with the extensive reporting requirements, from transport and documentation to customs clearance in the receiving country. We ensure accurate details of each movement are notified to the Environment Agency on an ongoing basis, and correct authorisations remain in place.

If you're interested in learning more about how RED Industries can manage your waste and place it into energy recovery processes, get in touch with us. We're happy to guide you through this vital and complex service.