Composting

In 2009, SITA UK produced 89,000 tonnes of compost.

Composting is the oldest form of recycling organic material and has traditionally been practised in the UK on a relatively small scale. Nationally, about one to two per cent of municipal waste is composted, amounting to an estimated 1.5 million tonnes of product.

Organic materials make up a significant part of household and most organic materials - including garden green waste, cardboard, fruits, vegetables and wood waste - can be composted.

SITA UK has a network of composting facilities treating a range of organic waste, including garden and kitchen waste and the organic fraction of mechanically separated municipal waste.

We use both traditional open windrow systems as well as the more sophisticated in-vessel composting, where environmental conditions and emissions are fully controlled to improve the effectiveness of the composting process.

In 2009, SITA UK composted around 240,000 tonnes of green waste.

All of our green waste sites are registered to the Government-backed Compost Quality Protocol that sets standards to safeguard the environment, public health and product quality and have achieved the British Standard for compost materials, BSI PAS 100.

We supply compost to a wide range of markets and have a wide range of compost products that include bio-fuels, mulch products and high-quality horticultural grade compost.

We are also a member of the British Association of Landscape Industries.

See how composting works and how to compost at home.

Contact us for more information.