Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility

A Biomass Waste EFW facility Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility is permitted to incinerate up to 35,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 3.0MWe to the grid.

Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility Operational
Site Location See Biomass EfW → page for a larger UK Wide map.
Operator	Trackworks Ltd
Capacity	3 MWe
Feedstock	Waste Wood
EPR (Waste Licence)
ROC	Yes
CfD
CHP	Unkwn

Operators Annual Report

Input Data

Year	Wood	Litter	RDF	Other	Total
2021	17823	0	0	0	17823
2022	0	0	0	0	8732

Output Data

Year	IBA	IBA %ge of Tot IN	APC	APC %ge of Tot IN
2021	1282	7.19%	392	2.20%
2022	782	8.96%	268	3.07%

Picture of Trackwork Biomass EFW site, source Google Streetview

Summary

A Biomass Waste EFW facility Trackwork Waste and Thermal Treatment Facility is permitted to incinerate up to 35,000 tonnes per annum of Wood Waste generating 3.0MWe to the grid.

The Trackwork site was developed by Trackwork Ltd to process used railway sleepers from the rail network. Due to the hazardous nature of this particular material, the site is permitted as a hazardous waste incinerator. The permit was consolidated with an adjacent transfer station and processing site in November 2010, the consolidated permit allows up to 12,500 tonnes per year on non-hazardous and 42,000 tonnes per year of material to be handled.

Plant

The plant was reported as becoming operational in 2010 and was built at a cost of £8m.

Annual Sustainability Tonnage Input/Fuel

The tonnage received by the plant in the most recent Annual Sustainability Report and for the previous 3 years for 2020/21 was reported by Ofgem as below:

Year	Waste Wood (m3)	Waste Wood (t)	Straw	Miscanthus	Arboricultrual Waste	Sawmill Residue	Foresrty Residue	Round Wood	Short Rotation Coppice	MBM	Other Material
2020/21	0	12160	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019/20	0	1227	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2018/19	0	1507	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2017/18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Waste Tonnage, By Origin

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit MP3030BY, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated on October 2024. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 4,001.2t.

Where this tonnage exceeds that reported in year of the corresponding annual report, this may be due to the following reasons:

• Tonnage may have been received but not incinerated, i.e. the material is held pending incineration (the operator return to the EA reports as received whereas the annual report focuses on when the waste is incinerated.)
• Material may have been received into the site but treated in some other way than incineration.
• Material may have been received on the but transferred out of site for disposal/treatment at another site rather than incineration on the site.

EWC Code	Origin of Waste	Tonnes In
17 02 04*	Stirling	0.78
17 02 04*	West Berkshire	13.56
17 02 04*	Kent	191.44
17 02 04*	North Yorkshire	162.74
17 02 04*	Oxfordshire	52.00
17 02 04*	Cornwall	48.58
17 02 04*	Devon	525.88
17 02 04*	Bedford	28.38
17 02 04*	Northamptonshire	10.06
17 02 04*	Gloucestershire	17.14
17 02 04*	Dorset	17.78
17 02 04*	Suffolk	149.78
17 02 04*	Northumberland	33.36
17 02 04*	Reading	4.62
17 02 04*	Manchester	39.02
17 02 04*	Newport	5.12
17 02 04*	Newcastle upon Tyne	340.42
17 02 04*	Worcestershire	13.10
17 02 04*	Powys	2.50
17 02 04*	Lancashire	36.62
17 02 04*	Cumbria	154.60
17 02 04*	Norfolk	88.55
17 02 04*	Nottinghamshire	66.16
17 02 04*	Derbyshire	48.52
17 02 04*	Antrim and Newtownabbey	36.88
17 02 04*	Yorks & Humber	118.26
17 02 04*	North West	48.24
17 02 04*	County Durham	46.56
17 02 04*	Greater London	566.04
17 02 04*	Clackmannanshire	14.84
17 02 04*	Hampshire	31.56
17 02 04*	East Sussex	34.08
17 02 04*	Lincolnshire	119.44
17 02 04*	Essex	251.69
17 02 04*	Buckinghamshire	14.40
17 02 04*	Staffordshire	37.68
17 02 04*	Herefordshire, The County of	4.78
17 02 04*	Cambridgeshire	69.54
17 02 04*	Aberdeenshire	10.88
17 02 04*	North Lanarkshire	21.50
17 02 04*	Fife	19.38
17 02 04*	Surrey	53.18
17 02 04*	West Midlands	108.66
17 02 04*	Argyll and Bute	21.82
17 02 04*	Carmarthenshire	19.74
17 02 04*	Shropshire	21.32
17 02 04*	Hertfordshire	41.74
17 02 04*	Blaenau Gwent	2.28
17 02 04*	Somerset	100.70
17 02 04*	Warwickshire	21.06
17 02 04*	Bristol, City of	56.88
17 02 04*	Vale of Glamorgan	53.50
17 02 04*	West Sussex	3.86

The plant has expanded to take a wider range of hazardous Wood Waste beyond the originally intended railway sleepers from Network Rail including commercial and industrial sources, including the following treated Wood Waste:

• Creosote wood waste
• Copper Chromium Arsenic (CCA) wood waste
• Tanalised wood waste
• Cooling tower wood waste
• Demolition wood waste
• Marine timber waste
• Utility poles
• Telegraph poles