A waste management company based at Colnbrook has become the first in the country to achieve a ‘zero waste to landfill’ target.

The company Lakeside Energy from Waste is based in Lakeside Road, off the Colnbrook bypass, where it has been operating since 2012 - after being created as a joint venture by Grundons and Virador.

Its operations director Danny Coulston said: “Our latest achievement – which we are very proud of – is recycling everything from the plant. Most combustion processes – even domestic fires – create ash which needs to be disposed of. We produce two types of ash at Lakeside – and now we recycle 100 per cent of both of these so nothing goes to landfill.”

The incinerator ash goes towards making construction materials and asphalt for roads, while ash left over from the gas clean up process goes to a company called Carbon8 Aggregates to make building blocks, precast and readymixed concrete and screed.

There are 980 solar panels on the roof of the recycling plant in Colnbrook.