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Specialists in the composting of catering waste,
Compost Doctors is managed by the Community Recycling Network (CRN) UK
in partnership with the Community Composting Network.
 
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ON-STE COMPOSTING - CASE STUDIES
BOOTHFERRY GOLF CLUB

Golf Clubs provide an example of how on site composting can work efficiently and be beneficial to the business in the reduction of their waste stream. They produce a significant amount of organic waste that can be recycled rather than sent to landfill and have enough land to utilise the end product. The restaurant hosts corporate and private functions as well as serving members and has recently been upgraded. It serves 200+ meals per day with the resultant waste stream that needs disposing of.

The Director and Head Chef are very well informed about composting and are enthusiastic in their support for this project. The Compost Doctors set up the Green Machine system in August 2006 which now composts all their food, garden and cardboard waste on-site.

The Green Machine is an easy to use back to basics composting system harnessing the use of both worms and composting heaps. Realising that each system has value in its own right both are put together to create an all encompassing low cost, tidy compost method for the small commercial user enabling them to transform organic waste into a valuable asset with minimum outlay, rather than a waste stream problem.

Heaping creates a quick breakdown of organic material making it readily available for use on the land. The system equipment consists of a modular WormPod filled with 4k of worms per square metre giving 10 sq metres of wormbed capable of up to 30k+ of processing per day. The catering waste is mixed with other larger material such as garden waste, grass and shredded cardboard and heaped in a windrow area which quickly breaks down. The compost produced is filtered and used on the grounds.

The Green Machine


Taking an average of 227.38 kg kitchen food waste, cardboard and garden waste per week we estimate that there will be 11.8 tonnes composted and used on site over the year. The additional organic waste produced is grass cuttings from the greens which are spread on the rough and not taken off site.

Website: www.boothferrygolfclub.co.uk

THE PEAR TREE AT PURTON

The Pear Tree at Purton is a high class country hotel providing luxury accommodation, wedding, business parties and conference facilities. The catering includes a la Carte, breakfasts, conference buffets, weddings, business sandwiches and has around 1000 to 1500 covers per month.

They compost their garden and mainly un-cooked kitchen waste (including veg peelings, some shellfish peelings, bread and pastry leftovers) in an in-vessel composting system called a Rocket. They compost around 11 kg of food waste a day. They shred their garden waste and use this to add to the food waste as well as composting just garden waste in bays.


In 2007 the hotel was awarded a silver 'Green Tourism Business Award' which was in part due to the composting system initiated by the Compost Doctors programme as well as other recycling measures including glass.

The large, well maintained garden has plenty of space on which to use the compost. They no longer need to buy in soil improver and peat saving their business money.

The managers of the hotel value the expertise our Compost Doctor has provided: "We would never have got around to composting without our Compost Doctor".

Website: www.peartreepurton.co.uk

 Rocket at the Pear Tree
Tel: 01872 560443 | Email: compostdoctors@crn.org.uk | Website: www.compostdoctors.org.uk
Compost Doctors, c/o CRN UK, 57 Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4QH
COMPOST DOCTORS - SPECIALISTS IN SMALL SCALE, ON-SITE COMPOSTING