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On site food and green waste treatment systemsAt this moment in time, the UK is sending a huge amount of organic wastes to landfill, be it food waste, green garden waste or animal waste. The EU has set targets for diversion of this waste to be completed by 2010. There are huge fines set by the EU, to encourage our councils to curb this harmful practice.
Until this point, charges will continue to increase to transport and dispose of our wastes in the traditional methods, as the councils increase the taxes the waste carriers pay. For organic wastes there are minimal alternatives, incineration or Composting, and composting is the only environmentally friendly one of these.
Rocket® In vessel Composting is a solution for small scale industrial or commercial applications, anyone who produces between 50 litres and 7000 litres of food waste, or of a mix of food waste and garden waste. The use of our technology, the Rocket® Composter, means that these applications do have an alternative, an alternative to paying the rising disposal charges, and an alternative to the harmful methods of burying or incinerating their wastes.
The Rocket® Composter can be used on site , to treat these wastes , with the end product – compost , to be re used on site , or if there are no grounds , to be found a home with an appreciative end market.
The Rocket® In-Vessel Composter – The solution to food waste disposal.
In 1998 the first prototype Rocket® In Vessel Composter (IVC) was made, designed to reduce the space required to compost a vast amount of green waste, generated on a small holding owned by the inventor.
In 2001 the final prototype was made. This coincided with the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, which was rumoured to have been started by uncontrolled composting of food waste. This gave the inventor and designers a new purpose for the Rocket®, and thus bringing a new take on how we could dispose of food waste.
Working with DEFRA, the Rocket® was deigned to be compliant with the proposed regulations, brought about following the outbreak of foot and mouth, the Animal by-Products Regulations (ABPR's). Being compliant with these regulations meant that the Rocket® could treat meat included catering waste. (clients sites may need approval by the state veterinary service, for composting of meat included wastes - contact ACL for further details)
With this, the Rocket® In-Vessel Composter was granted a European patent in early 2003, and by summer of the same year the Rocket® was fully launched.
Which brings us to where we are today. Available in four sizes, A500, A700, A900 and the new A1200, the individual Rocket® In-Vessel Composters have the capacity to treat between 50 and 7000 litres of organic wastes per week, be it garden waste, raw or cooked food waste, including meat and fish or woodchip based animal bedding. Still today the Rocket® is the only in-vessel composter of its size to have been given ABPR approval to treat meat included food waste, and in fact the majority of the applications throughout the UK and Ireland are doing just this.
Rocket® In Vessel Composting Applications
The Rocket® In Vessel composter can be seen operating the length and breadth of the Uk, treating food waste and garden waste in numerous applications, from Community Composting operations, where these groups are collecting kitchen waste from hi rise tenements, prison recycling facilities where the kitchen waste and plate scrapings are processed, to National Trust Estates, who are composting green waste and cafeteria wastes for re use in borders and planting after composting.
Such examples of in vessel composting are:-
Schools Composting.An example of schools composting using the Rocket® in vessel composter, can be seen in later pages on the web site, where the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust have pioneered composting in nine schools, using Rocket® in vessel composters to treat their food and garden wastes, working with lesson plans to work composting and recycling into the syllabus and helping to encourage the pupils to understand the value of recycling and it’s effect on the environment. In Colleges and Universities , recycling is also high on the agenda , with food waste now being treated at numerous campuses throughout the country , recent pilot projects showing these colleges and universities how on site composting is a viable alternative to traditional disposal methods. |
Community Composting of Kitchen and Commercial Food and garden wastesThere are numerous community composting groups throughout the country, from Forres in Scotland, Burnley in Lancashire, to the London Borough’s of Hackney , Berking and Dagenham, Tower Hamlets and most recently Camberwell, where collections of commercial food waste, or the collection of kitchen waste from households , are being processed using the Rocket®, remote highlands and islands are using the composter to treat their wastes on site, eliminating the need for the costly transportation of wastes, away from these remote areas , and the need for landfill. |
Prison Recycling and CompostingThe Prison service identified the need for on site in vessel composting very early on, the need to seek alternative methods of waste disposal were sought, and in many cases the use of in vessel composters were decided upon, again to treat the large amounts of food waste generated, to be combined with garden waste, the machines are seeing service from County Durham to Dover. In some cases the inmates are being given the opportunity to work towards an NVQ or similar accreditation in waste management, where the Rocket® Composter, the processing of the kitchen and garden waste, and the further treatment of the end product are forming part of this accreditation and learning. |
Other Composting PossibilitiesAnywhere that produces food waste, or garden waste, can recycle using the Rocket® on site, we see those who produce the waste, treat the waste and re use the resultant material – compost, on site, as being ideal applications. Stopping the need to send organic waste to landfill and having a negative effect on the environment, but also saving on increasing waste disposal costs. Businesses who are wishing to get closer to a state of “zero waste to landfill”, have been some of the more recent inquiries. Office blocks for large blue chip companies and government departments, the list is truly endless. If there is any query relating to the application of our machines in your potential application, please do not hesitate to contact us, and we will be more than happy to explain how this would work for you. |
ACL can be contacted on 01260 222942 for a free demonstration and further details
Quick contact details
Please contact Accelerated Compost Limited on 01260 222942 or email sales@quickcompost.co.uk for enquiries within:
England - Bath, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cleveland/Teesside, Cornwall, County Durham, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Merseyside, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
Wales - Mid Wales, North Wales, South Wales and West Wales.
Northern Ireland - Belfast, County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry and County Tyrone.
Offshore counties - Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Orkneys and Shetland Isles.
Scotland - Angus & Dundee, Argyll, Ayrshire & Arran, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh & the Lothians, Fife, Glasgow, Grampian, Highlands, Isle of Islay, Isle of Mull, Isle of Skye, Lanarkshire, Perthshire, Stirlingshire and Western Isles.
Southern Ireland / Eire - Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow.
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For all other enquiries, please contact Accelerated Compost Limited on 01260 222942 or email info@quickcompost.co.uk.
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Due to our policy of continuous development we reserve the right to change design and specifications without prior notice. Accelerated Compost Limited does not accept responsibility for any loss as a result of any company or person relying on material in this website, or for any mistakes or misprints. Although every care is taken to ensure accuracy, this site is a general guide only and specific technical advice is recommended before proceeding with any transaction. Specific fact sheets, or, technical information is available from Accelerated Compost Limited technical department on 01260 222942.
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