Sir Steve Redgrave opens Avonmouth recycling plant

Sir Steve Redgrave, multiple gold-medal winning Olympic rower, has opened the £25m waste treatment plant in Avonmouth near Bristol, for which Shufflebottom provided 700 tonnes of structural steel (pictured). The plant was built by New Earth Solutions for Bristol City Council, and will compost waste into a growing medium for energy crops and for improving the quality of brownfield -- formerly developed -- land.

A second adjacent plant should open in 2013, and will transform waste plastic into diesel fuel.