It has already begun exporting electricity to the grid and powers plastic reprocessing at the site. Viridor said the facility could help UK plastic waste exports by around 8% and save 126,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year - the equivalent of taking more than 67,000 cars off the road. The company estimated five more plastic reprocessing facilities on the scale of Avonmouth would be needed to end all plastic waste exports from the UK. Viridor chief executive Kevin Bradshaw said the additional plants could generate a third of a billion pounds in new investment and will create more than 600 jobs across the country. Read More Related Articles Read More Related Articles Mr Bradshaw said: "We are leading this effort and want to build more state-of-the-art facilities like Avonmouth. DEFRA's ambitious and vital policy reforms have the potential to create the stable investment environment to realise this ambition and align job creation with doing the right thing for the environment."