Green Collection Of Green Waste
Recycling, the environment and the natural order are issues dear to all landscape and arboricultural professionals. Yet, while few landscapers or tree surgeons would wish to see garden waste sent to landfill, many commercially minded operations are also keen to avoid increasing costs associated with commercial green waste collection.
For professionals who work on large-scale projects with rapid turnarounds and limited free space it is, sadly, rarely practical to compost waste on site and return it to the land from which it came. Yet The Composting Company Limited (TCCL) offers an elegantly circular solution for any landscaper who would like to see their green waste used much as it would be in nature – transformed into high quality conditioners and returned to the soil to nourish further growth.
TCCL launched an open window composting site last spring, at Red Lodge, near Newmarket, with the initial aim of manufacturing 7,000 tonnes of high quality Broadlandsbranded soil conditioner from 12,000 tonnes of green waste and woodchip. Such has been the success of the initiative that it today also produces a range of Broadlands branded mulches, among them a hardwood ornamental, produced from bark, and a woodland mulch, made from recycled softwood, along with a range of different soil treatments, which are being readily adopted across East Anglia. All compost manufactured contains New Era Compost Biosa, a unique blend of beneficial micro-organisms that have been proven to help soil and plant health, thus reducing the need for chemical fertilisers.
The Red Lodge facility also provides landscape gardeners and tree surgeons across the region with a much-needed, low-cost recycling opportunity. For operators working within a 30 mile radius of Red Lodge for example, TCCL will deliver either waste collection containers, featuring drop-down rear ends and low side walls for easy loading, to large sites on request, and empty and replace them as required. Lesser volumes of waste may simply be delivered to the facility during working hours, six days a week – rather like a municipal recycling facility, but at a greatly reduced cost. Businesses that supply green waste to TCCL will, naturally, benefit from preferential deals on both compost and mulches.
Established in 2003 specifically to divert green waste from landfill and to close the recycling loop, the company is now undergoing a period of entirely organic growth, driven by increasing demand both from the public – the products are sold at farmers’ markets as well as in garden stores – and from professionals, among them not only landscapers and tree surgeons but members of Newmarket’s racing community. By ensuring that both collection of waste and distribution of finished product remains within the local region, the company reduces its carbon footprint - and landscapers’ dependence on chemical fertilisers based on fossil fuels.
Says Mark Drury, operations manager, TCCL: “These are allnatural products that benefit our gardens, our farmlands, and our future. We are delighted with the response we have received not only from local home gardeners but from landscapers across the region.”
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