Rail freight London trash is capital cash

Typical bin liner train. Foulger Rail Photos - Flickr

Reducing, reusing, recycling; but still, London throws away a train load of trash every day. That’s either a big problem or a big opportunity. For rail freight, it’s the latter. Five times a week, the waste that previously was London’s landfill, now fills a train instead. It heads west to Bristol, where it’s made into electricity and construction materials.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

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Rail freight London trash is capital cash

Typical bin liner train. Foulger Rail Photos - Flickr

Reducing, reusing, recycling; but still, London throws away a train load of trash every day. That’s either a big problem or a big opportunity. For rail freight, it’s the latter. Five times a week, the waste that previously was London’s landfill, now fills a train instead. It heads west to Bristol, where it’s made into electricity and construction materials.

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