Last night I attended a very impressive public meeting in Pucklechurch on plans for a new 'in-vessel' (ie enclosed) composter between Westerleigh and Pucklechurch. The plan is to process 30,000 tonnes a year of 'green waste' from South Gloucestershire. The problem is that the proposed site is in the middle of a particularly important stretch of Green Belt.
For anyone who wants to know more about in-vesssel composters (and I never thought I would find myself writing that sentence) my Lib Dem colleague councillor Claire Young has recently started her own blog and you read more here.
We saw a particularly impressive presentation by parish councillor Martin Smith who had produced some artist's impressions of what the actual scheme would look like. A building described in the application as being like a 'Dutch Barn', turned out to be a great big metal construction, and the size and scale of the thing was comparable to an Airbus A380. Only goes to show you shouldn't believe everything you read in planning applications.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Composting
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Hello Steve,
The Albany New York area had an in-vessel system just outside Albany in Menads for many years and odor was not an issue. However it was located in an industrial area and traffic was not an issue to the neighbors. They did not survive as a business and now we are looking at a partnership with a local farm to start another facility. Good Luck. Steve
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