Energy from waste
Operating
Leeds Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility
Leeds, United Kingdom
The Leeds facility at Newmarket Approach serves the city’s residual household waste stream. Veolia describes mechanical sorting to recover some materials before the remaining waste goes to combustion. The facility supplies electricity to the grid and heat to the district heating network.
- Published capacity
- 214,000 t/year
- Operator
- Veolia
- Carbon capture
- Unknown
Location
Newmarket Approach, Leeds LS9 0RJ
The registry pin marks an approximate city or district location.
Technical specifications
- Annual capacity
- 214,000 t/year
- Design · Permitted annual intake for the overall facility, including its sorting stage Source 1
- Grid connection
- Unreported
- Net efficiency
- Unreported
- Net electricity
- Unreported
- District heat
- Unreported
- Renewable natural gas
- Unreported
- Biochar
- Unreported
- Design CO₂ capture
- Unreported
- Feedstock
- Municipal solid waste
- Outputs
- Electricity, District heating, Recovered recyclables
- Capital cost
- Unreported
- Annual operating cost
- Unreported
Environmental footprint
- GHG intensity
- Unreported
- Fly ash diversion
- Unreported
Supply chain and compliance
- No published supply chain or policy links.
Sources and methodology
- Leeds recycling and energy recovery facility location Veolia UK · Retrieved 2026-11-10
- Energy from waste facility fact file Veolia Leeds · Retrieved 2026-11-10
Record updated