Staff members from FCC Environment, which owns and operates the Allington Energy from Waste plant, took time out from their day jobs to attend an inspirational event at St Simon Stock Catholic School designed to promote careers education in Kent.
Mar Martinez Casas, FCC Environments’ input/output operations manager at the facility, said: “We welcomed students from Year 7 to Year 13 to our stand, and we talked to them about what we do as a company, inspiring them to become engineers in the future by telling them all about the programmes that FCC runs to encourage new talent into the sector.
“We were impressed by the students’ enthusiasm and curiosity, with great questions, and we have already received some contacts for work experience placements.”
FCC Environment owns and operates the Allington Integrated Waste Management Facility, which recovers energy from non-recyclable, non-hazardous waste streams.
The facility sorts separated recycling materials, recovers energy from non-hazardous waste, and can process up to 550,000 tonnes of mixed waste a year for energy recovery, as well as a further 65,000 tonnes of separated materials suitable for recycling.
The facility generates up to 43MW of power, 34MW of which goes into the local electricity supply network to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Any surplus power generated goes back into the system to assist in powering the facility.
