Waste Knot Energy has secured funding from Gresham House’s British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) to build its first alternative fuel pelleting plant. The plant will reduce waste going to landfill while providing a fuel to replace coal and pet coke, reducing global carbon emissions.
The plant will produce Waste Knot’s Green Knot branded pellets using nonrecyclable waste — otherwise destined for landfill or for another country’s waste facilities. The high-calorific value of the pellets makes them a reliable, low-emission bulk alternative to coal and pet-coke for energy-intensive industries, such as cement and steel.
With construction under way at the first site in Teesside, this marks an important step for the United Kingdom in developing infrastructure to process its own waste and providing an alternative to landfill.
Once completed, the plant in Middlesbrough, Teesside will manufacture more than 240,000 tonnes of fuel pellets each year, which will be
