Compost
Kilmainhamwood Compost is the largest fully enclosed composting facility in Ireland situated on a 33 acre site in Ballynalurgan, Kilmainhamwood Co Meath.
The facility produces high grade compost and offers customers a product that can be used as a soil conditioner in commercial agriculture, landscaping, as organic fertiliser or as a custom growing media.
The facility is operated under EPA Licence W0195-01 which determines the types of material to be composted including non hazardous biodegradable material such as catering waste, green waste, brown-bin food waste and sludge. The facility is also approved by the Department of Agriculture.
Brown Bin Collections
Thorntons Recycling are pleased to be able to offer to all of its commercial customers a Food Waste Collection service. From 1/7/2010 all commercial customers that produce food waste are required to source segregate their waste food and organise a seperate collection. This material is diverted away from landfill and sent to Thorntons Kilmainhamwood facilty where the material is turned into a compost product.
For more information on our service please click on the attached link
Commercial Food Waste Collection Service
See what happens your Brown Bin Material once collected - RX3 - Case Study
To progress the development of new markets for recyclables, the Government established the Market Development Group. This group includes as members a range of stakeholders from across the waste industry and business sectors.
The rx3 team is tasked with project managing the Market Development Programme for Waste Resources.
In order to promote market awareness rx3 commissioned case study videos showing how established companies, working with waste materials, are recycling and making their products. These case studies show what companies do to turn waste into resources, including material accepted, processes conducted and products produced and markets these products are sold into.
Thorntons Recycling was asked to participate and a case study was made for its composting facility in County Meath. Please follow the link below to view.
What happens to Brown Bin Waste - YouTube
Facility of the Year2008 Award
Kilmainhamwood Compost, Thorntons Recycling's state of the art composting facility in Co Meath, has been named Ireland's Best Composting Facility in the Cré Compost Industry Awards 2008.
Pictured (left to right): Duncan Stewart, Tom Mc Donnell (Facility Manager) and Conor McGovern (Chairman CRE Ireland) at Compost Awards 2008.
The awards recognise excellence, impact and innovation in the composting industry and entrants to the "Best Composting Facility" category must demonstrate how they operate as a role model for the industry in Ireland. Judging criterion includes how the facility is operated and maintained, the standards employed in the manufacturing process, the skill sets of the workforce and the quality of compost produced.
For further information contact: Tom McDonnell, Facility Manager, 01 6235133 ext 448.
