Plans for a new recycling plant in Glasgow are moving ahead as the company commissioned to build it has met with lawyers.

Viridor (Glasgow) Ltd called in law firm Pinsent Masons to advise them on the 25-year contract the waste services company has with Glasgow City Council.

Viridor will design, build, finance and operate a recycling and renewable energy site in the south of the city, to open by 2016 and treat 175,000-200,000 tonnes of waste a year.

The Glasgow Centre will comprise advanced facilities for recycling, anaerobic digestion and energy recovery by gasification, and it will make a major contribution on behalf of the City of Glasgow towards Scotland's ambitious Zero Waste Plan.

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The contract is subject to Viridor's gaining planning permission to build the plant. The company expects to make a planning application towards the end of this summer, in the hope of securing planning consent early in 2013.

Viridor will invest about £160m of its internal funds in the project, £10m more than was announced earlier in the month.

But the plant will create 250 jobs and save £254m on Glasgow City Council’s waste disposal bill.

The plant will be built by Interserve as the EPC Contractor.

Colin Drummond, Chief Executive of Viridor, said: "The new plants will have a combined gross electrical power generation capacity of 15MW and Viridor will work with its partner, Glasgow City Council, to maximise heat recovery opportunities."

(NE)