Based in Keady, County Armagh, NWP takes in and composts 35,000 tonnes of green waste every year from many of the District Councils in Northern Ireland. The company gained certification to the scheme for its soil conditioner branded Rosey Lee following verification that its quality managed composting process achieves high quality compost.
 (l-r)- Emily Nicholls (Composting Association); Tracy Fitzpatrick (Environmental Officer NWP); Irene Kempton (Senior Environmental Officer, Armagh City & District Council); Brendan Woods (Managing Director NWP); and Sharon Russell (Composting Association). |
BSI PAS (Publicly Available Specification) 100 for composted materials was launched in 2002 by WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme), The Composting Association and BSI Professional Standards Services. The standard enables producers of composted materials to assure end users of the quality, consistency and reliability of their products. Participating companies are required to regularly monitor, record and evaluate process performance in connection with compost quality. They must also document all their procedures and provide accurate, up-to-date key information about their products.
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Brendan Woods, Managing Director of NWP, said: “We are delighted to be the first company in Northern Ireland to have achieved this much sought after certification and to have done so in such a short time. This certification reaffirms to our customers that NWP can deliver a consistently high-quality product which is also environmentally friendly.”
Ian Garner, WRAP’s Northern Ireland Liaison Officer, said: “BSI PAS 100 allows composted products to be used with confidence and NWP certification demonstrates that good quality products are being manufactured from the resources which would otherwise have been consigned to landfill.”
NWP is believed to be Northern Ireland's largest composter and takes green waste in from civic amenity sites and some kerbside collections run by Banbridge, Armagh and Newry & Mourne local authorities. A gate fee is charged which varies from about 25-35 per tonne depending on transport costs.
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