Shropshire Council 's planning committee has just approved plans by a private firm to install a demonstration “in-vessel” composting (IVC) unit at a disused aircraft hangar on Peplow Airfield in the village of Childs Ercall near Market Drayton.
Once built the site will be capable of process around 25,000 tonnes per annum of kitchen waste, woodchip, paper/cardboard, garden waste and sewage cake. Although at present the company behind the plans - In-Vessel Composting Ltd based in Wrexham are planning to use the site as a demonstration plant only.
It will process de minimus quantities of waste which will be sourced independantly from commercial sources but their main aim is for the site to act as a show room, demonstrating their innovative rotary steel drums which can be used to process mixed organic waste in controlled conditions. The steel composting drums are available in a range of sizes to suit everyone from a small school or hospital right up to industrial scale commercial composting operations.
Electrically powered versions of the unit which add heat to guarentee composting is compliant with the Animal Byproduct Regulations are also available.
Despite some local opposition the plan was recommended for approval and construction can now proceed subject to the neccessary permitting being approved.
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