© South Wales Evening Post - 13 August 2005
Plans have been submitted for a building to house Swansea's new £1 million recycling system. Councillors hope the proposed state-of-the-art in-vessel composting machine will help to reduce the volume of waste that is being sent to landfill.
Swansea produces more than 140,000 tons of waste every year.Of that, around 31,000 tons is recycled, leaving 110,000 tons to clog up landfill sites.
If the new plans are given the go-ahead, it will enable the council to turn kitchen waste normally destined for landfill into compost.
Last week an application was lodged by Swansea City Waste Disposal Company for a new 580 sq m side annexe.
It will be housed at the baling plant in Ferryboat Close, Swansea Enterprise Park.
