The WRAP accolade is being celebrated today at a special 'open day' event at Gowy attended by senior representatives from Cheshire County Council, WRAP, the Composting Association and WRG, together with other organisations who use compost as a soil conditioner. The event also sees the official launch of Composting Awareness Week 2002 with 350 awareness raising events taking place across the UK.
Waste Recycling Group started composting green waste from local communities throughout Cheshire at the Gowy site in 1998 as part of a ten-year contract to fulfil Cheshire County Council's waste disposal and recycling policy. A similar WRG composting facility at Maw Green, Crewe, which serves the southern part of Cheshire, has been operational since 1997. In total the company has 22 composting sites throughout the UK, composting more than 220,000 tonnes of green waste per yearWRG predicts it will be composting more than one million tonnes of waste material per year within the next five years.
Two sites
Together, the two Cheshire sites are on target to have composted over 100,000 tonnes of green waste by the end of this year. The waste is delivered from 16 household waste and recycling centres throughout Cheshire – operated by WRG – and from kerbside collections of garden waste in some parts of the County.
WRG chief Executive Nigel Sandy commented: “We're delighted that our pioneering approach and the high standards we have set in our composting activities have been recognised in this way by WRAP. Composting is playing an ever more important role in reducing the pressures on landfill sites and enabling local authorities to meet the demanding recycling targets that have been set by Government.”
He added: “Waste Recycling's significant investment will continue to reflect our commitment to composting which has been proven to be both cost effective and sustainable, and which will undoubtedly play an increasingly important role in meeting the waste management challenges of the future.”
Pleased
WRAP chief executive Jennie Price commented: “I am pleased that the Waste Recycling Group's composting at Gowy has been selected as a WRAP best practice site. This facility has been chosen for its commitment to attaining the highest standards of production under the UK Composting Association's Quality Assurance Scheme, and for demonstrating excellence in the consistency and quality of the composted products it manufactures.”
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