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Situated on the banks of the River Thames in
Bexley, RRRL uses modern technology to first
recycle, then recover energy from London’s
municipal waste – making a significant
contribution to London’s green energy needs
by producing enough electricity from the waste
each year to power around 110,000 homes
(larger than Borough of Bexley!).
RRRL’s process not only generates electricity,
but also heat, both of which the company
anticipates will be used to help power and
cool/heat the modern data centre to be built
alongside the facility on Norman Road, for
which outline planning approval was granted
in July 2016, as well as offering a sustainable
heat offtake to future housing stock as part
of the Bexley Energy Master Plan scheme.
Before treatment at Bexley, opportunity is taken
to recycle as much waste as possible at our
Smugglers Way facility in Wandsworth, to
recover paper, plastics, metals, tins and glass.
The residue which remains is compacted into
containers and transported down the River
Thames by tug and barge to the Riverside plant
before processing into electricity and heat.
Finally, not wasting anything, in the last part
of the process, up to 200,000 tonnes of ash
produced is transferred by Cory’s barges across
the river to the Port of Tilbury, where it is
recycled into road building and construction
aggregates – saving virgin aggregates.
By processing three quarters of a million tonnes
of waste a year and generating 520,000 MWh
of electricity per annum, Cory’s RRRL team save
the UK consuming an equivalent 200,000
tonnes of coal or 100 million m3 of gas. Better
still, this process completely avoids the waste
simply being thrown straight into a landfill site.
In addition to processing local waste from
Bexley, the facility serves six other boroughs -
Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith and
Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, the City of
London and Westminster, as well as a range of
business customers.
By choosing to move material by the River
Thames, Cory removes over 100,000 lorry
movements from London’s congested roads
each year, further reducing carbon emissions
by up to 75% compared to moving the
equivalent amount of material by road.
All in all – Cory is proud to contribute to
London’s sustainable economy, generating
energy and producing materials important
for London’s infrastructure and home
building programme.
The Cory Group’s “Riverside Resource Recovery
Limited” (RRRL) is the proud owner and
operator of one of the largest, cleanest and
most efficient Energy fromWaste (EfW) plants.
Bexley is the Best!