This process has led to our recent innovation to incorporate old plasterboard into an agriculture focused compost, high in lime content, that is perfect for Jersey Royal potato farmers. As a knock on effect this has also significantly reduced the cost of disposing of this particularly difficult waste stream.”
Operating seven days a week, the site accepts both commercial and domestic green waste, which is initially fed by a Cat® 966K wheel loader, into its latest investment, a newly commissioned, fixed electric Komptech Crambo 5000 shredder.
Replacing its older Crambo 5000 mobile diesel model that has been in operation for eight years, the new unit is powered directly from electricity generated by the energy from waste plant, supporting its efforts to become carbon neutral. Once shredded, the material is then laid down to compost, being turned for a period of 5-7 weeks,
depending on the grade of compost required. It is then fed by the Cat 966K into a fixed electric powered Multistar screener, which has been operating on the island for 4 years. By changing the setting on the Multistar screener, the onsite team is able to produce 0-10mm and 0-20mm agricultural grade compost, which is sold to end-users.
Denis “Because the site has to process waste every day, as part of the procurement process we went through to purchase the equipment, we set service level agreements with
the Finning Komptech team to ensure high levels of uptime.
“By monitoring the equipment and scheduling in the servicing for all three units (Crambo 5000, Multistar and Cat 966K), the overall cost of maintaining the equipment has been kept to a minimum. Being able to couple this with the benefits of our electricity coming from our sister operation and the revenue from the sale of our enhanced product range, we are now in a much more sustainable position as an organisation.
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