SKS废品处理公司目前提交了一份关于在南威尔士兴建一座9，000 t/a食品垃圾产沼气项目的计划。

该公司表示，他们已经向托法恩议会提交了关于将从当地的居民和商户中收集的食品垃圾应用厌氧消化产沼技术来进行处理的项目申请。早些时候，SKS在南威尔士州阿哥斯曾获得了一个在当地建设年处理120,000 t/a食品垃圾的项目的规划许可，但是，根据政府部门对固废处理政策的调整，新的固废处理技术目前被许可了，公司将取消原先项目的建设。

计划兴建的厌氧消化项目在庞蒂浦附近公司新酒店的位置，将至少满足4000家庭的绿色能源需求。该公司表示，将进一步公开当地居民和其他有关方面针对该项目的最新建议，并讨论这些建议。

公司当前的目标是尽快得到规划许可后实施该项目，并在2014年上半年实现该项目的投运。

90,000 Tonne Food Waste to Biogas Plant for Wales

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15 March 2012

Waste management company, Shanks (LSE:SKS) has submitted a planning application to develop a 90,000 tpa biogas facility to handle 90,000 tonnes per year of food waste in South Wales.

The company said that it made the application for the Anaerobic Digestion (AD) to Torfaen County Borough Council for the plant that will handle food waste collected from local households and businesses.

According to an earlier report in the South Wales Argos, Shanks already has planning permission for a 120,000 tonnes a year capacity mechanical biological treatment plant at site.

However, Shanks said that due to changes in national waste policy, endorsed by the Welsh Government, which mean that alternative waste treatment methods are now preferred, the company no longer plans to pursue this project.

The planned AD plant at the company's New Inn location, near Pontypool site would produce enough energy to power at least 4000 homes, according to the company.

Shanks has been shortlisted for the municipal food waste contracts for both the Heads of the Valleys Waste Partnership and the South West Wales Waste Partnership.

The company said that it will be holding further public exhibitions to explain the latest proposals in the planning application to local residents and other interested parties, and to discuss the changes made to the scheme.

Subject to receiving planning permission, the company said that it aims to have the plant operational in the first half of 2014.