Members voted 11 to four in favour of the energy-from-waste plant at New Barnfield near Hatfield.
Hertfordshire County Council agreed plans for an energy-from-waste plant at New Barnfield, in October.
The public gallery was packed with residents opposed to the scheme as the full council debated the waste plant on Wednesday evening.
Spelthorne council objected to the Eco Park from the outset, believing it was "fundamentally wrong" to put a waste plant so close to many hundreds of people's homes.
Gloucestershire County Council had already signed a 25-year contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty (UBB) to build the energy-from-waste plant at Javelin Park, close to junction 12 of the M5.
While Viridor started building its energy-from-waste plant in Trident Park in Cardiff last March, Veolia's planning application for a site near the Llanwern steelworks, close to Newport, was turned down last July, and its appeal will be heard next July.
In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main waste processing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons of radioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
In other news, this week Qatar showcased designs for 9 sustainable stadiums for the 2022 World Cup and BIG unveiled plans for a plant-wrapped waste to power plant that doubles as a ski slope.
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In Gothenburg's waste treatment plant, Rickard discovered a silver lining in the cloudy waters.
The Vale of White Horse District Council has unanimously rejected plans for a waste treatment plant near Sutton Courtenay.
Consultation on plans to build a nuclear waste processing plant on the Romney Marsh has seen 63% of residents and 50% of businesses reject the idea.
The Department of the Environment has ordered an internal investigation into why the public was not informed of planning approval for a major waste processing plant near Londonderry.
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In the Aug. 23 memo, the DOE official responsible for supervising engineering at the facility, Gary Brunson, calls for Bechtel to be immediately removed as the design agent for the novel Waste Treatment Plant (WTP), which was supposed to begin operation last year.
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He set fire to an electric guitar alone onstage in front of a stunned crowd at the opening of Clarion Hotel Union Brygge in Drammen. (The newest addition to his empire opens Wednesday in Oslo, a luxurious art hotel named The Thief.) In Britain in 2002 he chained himself to the gate of a waste treatment plant to protest nuclear power.
Much-touted cellulosic ethanol from plant waste remains a long way from commercial production reality.
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Plans to extend a waste and recycling plant in Surrey have been given the final go-ahead.
The Environment Agency could face a legal challenge after approving a new waste and recycling plant in Surrey.
The process works at 90 percent efficiency, and it can be used on a variety of plant waste beyond orange peels.
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It is also developing an anaerobic digester that acts like a giant cow stomach, creating biogas from solid food and plant waste.
Having found similar levels of the toxic waste outside the plant, the local government is checking the health of residents in the neighbourhood.
Unknown to most, the United States has an operating deep permanent geologic repository for nuclear waste, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP.
Located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is a world first: a series of man-made tunnels 2, 150 feet underground, designed to accommodate radioactive waste.
Made from corn stalks, switchgrass and other plant waste, it has the advantage of not competing with the food supply and also boasts a superior energy balance than corn-based ethanol.
It also recycles plant waste which is normally discarded.
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The Energy Department released a statement expressing frustration with the progress of the plant, which is supposed to vitrify encase in glass the 53 million gallons of radioactive and toxic waste at the plant.
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Viridor is asking South Hams District Council for permission to build an energy from waste (EfW) plant at the New England Quarry near Lee Mill.
In December, four cabinet ministers warned in a joint statement that Lynas must export all waste material from its plant or see its operations suspended.
United Utilities is converting a by-product of waste water at its Blackburn plant into gas.
The plant would take waste left over after recycling and composting from five local authorities in north Wales.
Councils in the west of the county have expressed an interest in taking waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant.
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