A Resource Park is the gateway between sustainable waste management, generation of renewable energy and economically sustainable jobs for the local community.

The best way to understand how this is achieved is to compare the key features of the development with the most widely accepted model of managing waste. This is known as the Waste Hierarchy. The intention of the waste hierarchy is to encourage behaviour that is sustainable. This should be achieved (in order of preference) by reducing waste at source through minimisation or reuse, ensuring waste that is produced can be composted or recycled or have energy recovered from it, with landfill being the option of last resort. The Hierarchy is shown below.

Hover over each part of the Hierarchy and a box will appear telling you what feature of the Resource Park relates to it.

The Raynesway Resource Park has been designed to complement the Waste Hierarchy and in so doing creating sustainable jobs. All the jobs created at this development will by definition be new. The facility represents a new generation of sustainable development much needed not only in Derby but in the country as a whole.

Phase 1 of the development will see the construction of the entire building and the operation of the Materials Recycling Facility and the Energy Recovery Plant, bringing a total of 52 jobs and over £1.25M of wages into the local economy.

As soon as Phase 1 is commissioned, Phase 2 – The Area for Advanced Energy Production or AEP will be opened. The plan for this area is currently at outline stage as the area of AEP will look to develop and implement at commercial scale current demonstrator energy technologies that are sustainable and novel. Phase 1 will give the requisite site designation, a suitable building and a sustainable low carbon energy source to commercialise these new technologies. This is intended to lead to high value research and commercial 'green collar' jobs and assist in making Derby a regional centre in the carbon economy.

 

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