Partnership recycling project makes excellent progress
Excellent progress is being made on a Vale of Glamorgan-based
project which will lead to the recycling of waste material from
highways gullies.
The Vale Council, the City and County of Cardiff and Bridgend
County Borough Council are working in partnership for the first
time in their history on the development of the reed bed filtration
facility which is due for completion in August.
Vale Council Operational Manager (Highways) Keith Jones said the
£160,000 facility, which has been approved by the Environment
Agency, will be one of just a few across the country. It is being
developed at Pant y Lladron, near St Hilary.
As a by product, clean water will be produced and then be
available for use for gully cleansing, while soil and other solid
waste materials will be also be recycled.
Currently, the waste is taken to landfill, and the new facility
is viewed by the three authorities as a sustainable solution to the
problem.
Caption: Work on the reed bed filtration
facility at Pant y Lladron, near St Hilary, is well underway and
the project is on course for completion in August.