Issue - meetings

Process update

Meeting: 10/11/2010 - SecAnim (J L Thomas) Liaison Group (Item 45)

Process update

Minutes:

Terry Green reported that there had been no significant changes to the processing plant since the last meeting.

 

Atomising spray equipment to spray an odour neutralising agent in the vicinity of the external effluent tanks had been installed to help neutralise any localised odour, particularly when north and north easterly winds were predominant.

 

The total cost of environmental control from March 2010 to the end of August 2010 (6 months) was £199,830; £66,672 spent on odour control and £133,158 on effluent treatment. The combined average monthly spend being £33,305 which represented typical expenditure for the summer period.  A summary of individual costs was supplied to Members of the group. In response to a Member, Terry Green advised that greater expenditure applied at some of the company’s sister plants as they were larger in scale