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Composting Explained

Composting is an important part of waste management - especially in terms of encouraging landfill diversion, increasing recycling and providing a 'green' product that can be applied to a number of end uses such as fertiliser to improve soil quality.

The composting and biological waste treatment industry has an important role to play in helping the UK move towards greater sustainability. It forms a vital link in transforming organic wastes into marketable products that can benefit the environment in a number of ways. These include reducing the loss of soil organic matter on farms, creating top soils for use in construction projects, regenerating brownfield sites, reducing the consumption of peat in horticultural growing media, or through the generation of biogas to create a renewable energy source.

Graphite Resources has obtained planning permission to develop a modern and flexible green waste composting facility. The green waste will be delivered to Derwenthaugh EcoParc and bulked up for onward transportation to the composting facility that will be situated nearby.

The State of Composting and Biological Waste Treatment in the UK 2004/05 indicates that:
composting across the UK grew substantially, increasing from 1.97 million tonnes (Mt) in 2003/04 to 2.67 Mt in 2004/05, representing a 35% increase, 2.6 times the amount of waste composted in 2000/01.

Graphite Resources' composting site will be able to deal with 20,000 tonnes of green waste treatment per year.

Composting

Reasons why everyone should consider composting:

  1. Composting reduces the environmental impact of having to incinerate or landfill organic waste.
  2. Compost can improve soil structure and increase its fertility
  3. Composting reduces the need for materials such as peat and fertilisers
  4. Compost locks moisture into the soil, enabling gardeners and farmers to water less thereby reducing demand on valuable water resources

 

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