It is located on the River Lee Navigation and bordered by the North Circular Road, in Edmonton in the London Borough of Enfield.

"[3] The incinerator was Britain's largest, handling unrecycled waste from seven London Boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Islington, Hackney, Haringey, and Waltham Forest.

[4] In early 2002, plans were rejected for a large expansion of the waste-to-energy facility, which would have made it the largest household waste incinerator in Europe.

[2] Permissions had been granted by both the Environment Agency and Enfield Council, but on 23 May 2002, Energy Minister Brian Wilson refused the plans on the basis of the 2000 Waste Strategy.

[4] In January 2021, Taylor Woodrow Construction started work on an expansion of the facility known as "EcoPark South": the new plant, with a capacity to recover 135,000 tonnes of material each year, was due to be completed in 2023.