enfinium awarded highest environmental rating across all facilities for second consecutive year
enfinium, a leading UK energy from waste operator, announces that it has received the highest possible environmental performance rating from the Environment Agency (‘EA’) and Natural Resources Wales (‘NRW’) across all of its operational facilities. This latest rating highlights enfinium’s ongoing commitment to adhere to the highest standards of environmental performance, as it progresses its plans to decarbonise its operations and deliver carbon removals at scale.
For the second consecutive year, enfinium has achieved the top environmental performance rating (‘A’) at each of its four operational energy-from-waste facilities. An ‘A’ rating signifies that a facility has demonstrated exceptional environmental management, consistently meeting or exceeding regulatory requirements and posing a minimal risk to the environment. This rating reinforces enfinium’s position as a sector leader in responsible and sustainable operations, operating some of the most efficient and advanced energy from waste facilities in the UK.
Dr Jane Atkinson CBE, Chief Operating Officer at enfinium, said: “Our environmental strategy has always been designed to ensure we have a positive effect on the world around us. That is why our energy from waste facilities are governed by some of the world’s strictest environmental regulations, and we are proud to have been recognised by the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales for our efforts. I would like to thank all of the employees whose shared dedication to operational excellence have meant we continue to operate sustainably to decarbonise the UK’s unrecyclable waste.”
The announcement comes as enfinium progresses its plans to decarbonise its operations by 2033. Today, enfinium plays a critical role in reducing emissions from the waste sector by diverting unrecyclable waste from landfill, where it would otherwise generate methane — a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than CO₂ over a 20-year period. In 2023, enfinium diverted over two million tonnes of unrecyclable waste from landfill, meaning the equivalent of nearly 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide were diverted from the atmosphere.1
enfinium’s wider ambition is to transform its facilities into local ‘decarbonisation hubs’, powered by the millions of tonnes of unrecyclable waste the UK will produce for decades to come. Utilising its existing energy from waste infrastructure and carbon capture and storage technology, enfinium will have the potential to produce around 1.2 million tonnes reliable, high-quality carbon removals by 2039. Recent analysis by the Climate Change Committee2 and Oxford Institute for Energy Studies3 found that the energy from waste sector could contribute between 5 and 8 million tonnes of carbon removals every year by 2050.