Compost Site Designed To Avoid Landfill

Envar Ltd, now the UK’s largest composting facility, took over a 30 year lease on a working mushroom composting facility near Cambridge in 2004. Their work, to develop uses of compost to avoid landfill, is driven by legislative changes, landfill taxes and waste management regulations.

Acorus worked closely with Envar on the planning and design of new buildings and the refurbishment and appraisal of existing buildings on the composting site.

One of the key features of this site is that most of the composting is carried out in tunnels. The tunnels are required to meet animal by-product regulations and the facility uses the former mushroom composting tunnels to carry out composting of various waste products.

New state-of-the-art tunnels were required however to meet the increasing demand from a number of Local Authorities. The building project took eight months to construct and was funded by the Defra New Technology Demonstrator Programme (NTDP).