North Wales’ first commercial scale composting facility, located in Dwyfor, recently opened under the watchful eye of the Gwynedd County Council. The £1.6 million “invessel composting facility”, equipped with composting technology company TEG Environmental, is capable of treating 5,000 tonnes of waste a year using TEG’s 10-cage Silo Cage system.
TEG Environmental Chief Executive Mick Fishwick said: “Gwynedd county council is the first authority in North Wales to have introduced alternative technology for green and food waste disposal and we are pleased that they have chosen the TEG process.”
Gwyn Morris Jones, Gwynedd county council’s head of Highways and Municipal Services, said: “The new Dwyfor food composting service is a big step forward for Gwynedd council as we strive to reach the Assembly Government’s target to compost and recycle 40% of our waste 2009/10.”
This news comes as a great relief following a September 2007 Environment Agency Wales report that revealed the North Wales authority was “among only two Welsh councils who increased the amount of waste that they sent to landfill, with 289 more tonnes of waste being landfilled in 2006/07 than in 2005/06″.
Gwynedd has already supplied wheeled “kitchen caddies” to residents in the local Dwyfor area, encouraging them to dispose of food and garden waste. During the first week alone, the new composting scheme netted approximately 120 tonnes of food and garden waste for suitable for composting.
The council plans to extend its food waste collection service into the Meirionnydd area in the near future. Currently, Gwynedd, Conwy and Anglesey councils are working together to introduce a similar composting service the Arfon area.
For more information, visit: tegenvironmental.co.uk or gwynedd.gov.uk
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