James Heyes and Sons has provided 416,000 for the project, with 230,000 coming through the Merseyside Objective One fund.
” This is clearly much more than a simple end-of-the-garden compost heap. It is a successful business creating new local jobs and addressing an important environmental problem.“
– Tracy Gordon, Merseyside Objective One
The expansion at the company's composting business at Mossborough Hall in Rainford, will increase capacity for the site to 25,000 tonnes per year with the installation of new composting pads and improved drainage systems. The site recycles green waste collected from St Helens, Knowsley and Ormskirk.
James Heyes and Sons currently uses the composted product on its own agricultural land, but future plans are to market excess material to other farmers and local residents. The green waste treated at the site is also mixed with unwanted crops from the farm.
A spokesman for the Heyes family said: “Our family have been on this land since the 1600s and although it is on much bigger scale, our composting operation probably isn't that much different from that which our ancestors will have done.”
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Tracy Gordon, the Merseyside Objective One programme's environment policy manager, said: “This is clearly much more than a simple end-of-the-garden compost heap. It is a successful business creating new local jobs and addressing an important environmental problem.
“The objective One Programme has already aimed to provide economic solutions to environmental issues and we are delighted to support this project which demonstrates our approach perfectly,” she added.
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