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Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) Services

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Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) is a product of the Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) process which treats a proportion of household waste, that cannot be recycled, to produce a specialist fuel product with a high calorific value.The MBT process uses naturally occurring heat from the biological degradation processes to dry the SRF product. No external heat source is needed, hence this reduces the energy intensity of the process.
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Solid Recovered Fuel

Since 2003, Shanks have been leading the way in developing the market for the SRF in the UK. In a very short period of time, Shanks has been able to build a significant portfolio of customers, proving that there is a high demand for a secure source of sustainable fuel such as SRF.
 
The first customers began using SRF during the commissioning of the first MBT facility at Frog Island during 2006. Shanks now has considerable experience of producing and supplying SRF which has the benefit of displacing fossil fuels, lowering environmantal impacts and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
 
The SRF produced by Shanks is manufactured to a defined specification. Compliance with a series of European Standards, CEN/TC 343, ensures that there is a high level of quality control, allowing our customers to have confidence in the product, which has been shown to have a consistently high energy content, low moisture and a high proportion of carbon neutral biomass (around 60%).

Recycling and Reuse

The DEFRA 2010/2011 Local Authority Collected WasteManagement Statistics for England revealed 58.8% of all household waste is not being recycled. This 14 million tonne waste mountain, equivalent to 264 kg per person, contains high calorific material that can be converted to Refuse Derived or Solid Recovered Fuel.

Generally SRF has the energy (calorific content) equivalent of 2/3rds that of coal

The UK has the potential to produce 9 million tonnes of SRF each year, the equivalent to 6 million tonnes of coal. Around 60% of the energy of SRF isderived from carbon neutral biomass.

Quantifying the benefits

Using one tonne of SRF instead of the equivalent of primary fuel: coal displaces 0.67 tonnes of coal in a cement kiln has a net benefit saving of approximately 1 tonne of CO2e. So Shanks, by manufacturing approximately 88,000 tonnes of (cement grade) SRF in 2011, is saving 88,000 tonnes of CO2e each year.

This is the equivalent to: The equivalent emissions from driving:263 million miles

Enough CO2 to fill:136 billion cans of coke

187 million wheelie bins

7.3 million builders skips

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