{"id":630,"date":"2016-02-24T11:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/recovery-and-disposal"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:46:47","slug":"recovery-and-disposal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/recovery-and-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery and disposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Energy from Waste Plants in Devon<\/h2>\n<p>In Devon, the majority of waste that isn\u2019t reduced, reused, recycled or composted is sent to one of two energy recovery facilities either in Exeter or Plymouth. These plants combust residual (black bin) waste at extremely high temperatures in a controlled environment to produce energy which transformed into power and steam. Find out more about the plants by following the below links:<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-menu content-menu-default\"><ul class=\"grid-x grid-margin-x small-up-1 medium-up-2 large-up-2 content-menu-container\"><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-1\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><div class=\"content-menu-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" \r\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Plymouth-energy-from-waste-plant.jpg\" \r\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Plymouth-energy-from-waste-plant.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Plymouth-energy-from-waste-plant.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Plymouth-energy-from-waste-plant.jpg 420w\" \r\n                sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 470px, (max-width: 1023px) 420px, 420px\" \r\n                width=\"470\" \r\n                height=\"257\" \r\n                alt=\"Plymouth energy from waste plant\" \r\n                \/><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvv-environment.co.uk\/en\/swdwp_devonport\/devonportefwchpfacility_1.jsp\" rel=\"noopener\">More information about the Plymouth Energy From Waste Plant<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/li><li class=\"cell content-menu-item item-2\"><div class=\"content-menu-inner\"><div class=\"content-menu-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" \r\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Exeter-Energy-From-Waste-Plant.jpg\" \r\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Exeter-Energy-From-Waste-Plant.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Exeter-Energy-From-Waste-Plant.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2016\/02\/Exeter-Energy-From-Waste-Plant.jpg 420w\" \r\n                sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 622px, (max-width: 1023px) 420px, 420px\" \r\n                width=\"622\" \r\n                height=\"414\" \r\n                alt=\"Exeter Energy From Waste Plant\" \r\n                \/><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viridor.co.uk\/energy\/energy-recovery-facilities\/exeter-erf\/\" rel=\"noopener\">More information about the Exeter Energy From Waste Plant<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Whilst these plants are a much better option than simply landfilling our waste, it is still important that we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycledevon.org\/at-home\/\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce, reuse and recycle and compost<\/a> as much as possible.<\/p>\n<h2>Disposal in Devon<\/h2>\n<p>Kerbside residual waste collected by the eight district councils in Devon is sent to energy recovery facilities and only small amounts of recycling centre residual waste which cannot be processed through these facilities are sent to landfill in Devon.<\/p>\n<p>We also have the responsibility for the maintenance of 58 closed landfill sites across Devon. The majority of the closed sites are small sites which have been restored to agricultural land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy from Waste Plants in Devon In Devon, the majority of waste that isn\u2019t reduced, reused, recycled or composted is sent to one of two energy recovery facilities either in Exeter or Plymouth. These plants combust residual (black bin) waste &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/recovery-and-disposal\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Recovery and disposal\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 15:33:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/wasteandrecycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}