Plans for bio waste facility prompt hundreds of objections Reporter: Charlotte Green, Local Democracy Reporter Date published: 21 May 2021
Millstream Lane in Failsworth. Image courtesy of Google Maps
Plans to build a biowaste facility on the border of Oldham and Manchester have prompted outcry with more than 200 objections over fears of ‘horrendous’ smells.
Vegetable oil recycling company Enviroil has applied to Oldham council to build and operate a ‘small’ biowaste transfer station at its base on Failsworth industrial estate at Walton Mill.
The proposed facility would operate from the yard of the Millstream Lane site and would receive food waste from refuse collection vehicles.
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