Lafarge rapped by EA for exceeding pollution limits

Lafarge Cement’s Westbury works was in trouble with the Environment Agency (EA) last week, after the company failed to come to terms with pollution limits for alternative fuels.

The EA served an enforcement notice on the site for breaches of its permit to burn tyres.

The plant exceeded its limits for emissions of hydrogen chloride and oxides of nitrogen from its two kilns.

The EA set tighter pollution targets for tyre burning at the Westbury site last December, which allowed it to burn alternative fuels under the Waste Incineration Directive.

Lafarge said it has dedicated all the group’s technical resources to reducing emissions at the plant.

The EA last year stopped trials to burn alternative fuels at Westbury, and said it was “extremely concerned” about management at the site.