Request
i am writing to you under the freedom of information act and environmental information regulations 2004 to request the following information. please may you provide me with: please specify on a weekly basis since 2015, whether the fuel used in the edmonton ecopark efw facility is wid compliant. if it was not wid compliant please specify what material was used, why it was used and where it was obtained from. if a weekly basis is too specific please either provide the raw data or provide the data on an alternative time scale e.g. monthly, quarterly; that would meet the requirements of the time permitted for a free response under the foi act/eir. if it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the section 16 obligations of the act, as to how i can refine my request. if you can identify any ways that my request could be refined i would be grateful for any further advice and assistance. if you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and i will be very happy to clarify what i am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below. thank you for your time and i look forward to your response.
Response
Further to our email acknowledging your freedom of information request (reference 2022-189), our response is as follows.
You requested data from 2015 to the present showing ‘whether the fuel used in the edmonton ecopark efw facility is wid compliant’. Where it was not compliant, you requested information on ‘what material was used, why it was used and where it was obtained from’.
Compliance with the Waste Incineration Directive (WID) applies to energy from waste facilities. The facility at the Edmonton EcoPark is compliant with the WID. The WID does not set out the requirements for the waste treated. The conditions relating to the waste treated at the EcoPark are set out in the environmental permit for the site, which is available here.
Guidance on the WID is available here. Paragraph 4.9 sets out the conditions relating to waste quality that regulators should include in permits.
If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to raise a further information request. If you would like to complain about our handling of information requests, you can do so by emailing this email address (informationrequests@nlwa.gov.uk) or using the enquiry form on our website.
