Composting firms celebrate six-figure WRAP grants

Jack Moody Ltd of Shareshill, near Wolverhampton, and TJ Composting of Swanley in London will receive 590,000 and 116,000 respectively from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

WRAP is claiming its grants will allow about 220,000 of additional organic wastes to be composted over the next five years.

WRAP head of organics Anne O&#39B;rien said: “These two important projects will take us further towards meeting our challenging target of increasing the UK's processing capacity for municipal waste by 300,000 tonnes per annum by 2006.”

Jack Moody
Jack Moody will use its grant towards a 2.57 million in-vessel composting system, which will process about 30,000 tonnes of kitchen and garden waste each year.

The system will include seven composting tunnels alongside an enclosed waste reception area. Concrete processing areas will also be built for secondary processing, maturation and storage. The company has developed strong markets for its composting products in the growing media and landscaping markets, WRAP said.

Robert Moody, managing director of Jack Moody Ltd, said that alongside existing open windrow composting, the new in-vessel facility would mean the Hollybush Farm site would be processing over 60,000 tonnes of organic wastes each year.

TJ Composting
Meanwhile, TJ Composting will use its grant towards a 676,000 project to construct a new garden waste composting facility. The company's second fully-licensed operation, it will include concreted composting areas with new equipment to handle an additional 24,000 tonnes of waste each year.

Charlie Trousdell, TJ Composting managing director, said: “The site has already gained full planning permission and a waste management licence, and construction work is now underway, with the site due to open later this year.”