Waste Separation and Recycling Facilities - Location and Impact Considerations

Waste separation and recycling facilities may range from small community schemes to multi-stream separation, material recovery facilities. Also included is the recycling of construction and demolition waste. The potential impacts of modern facilities may be limited but noise, dust, odour and other emissions are likely to require careful consideration as is the heavy goods traffic generated by such facilities. Due to the industrial nature of commercial facilities suitable sites are port and docklands, general industrial areas, within a hard rock quarry or where the impact of the operations will not have a detrimental effect on