{"id":497910,"date":"2026-06-17T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/497910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:11:09","slug":"food-waste-plant-could-make-town-compost-bin-for-the-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/497910\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste plant could make town ‘compost bin for the south-west’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work to begin building the nearly seven-hectare (17 acres) site at Park Grounds Farm is expected to begin in the new year. It will be built next to an existing landfill operation near Brinkworth Road.<\/p>\n

Mike Eborne, technical development director at Eco Sustainable Solutions, said the site will offer a “vital sustainable solution for Wiltshire’s upcoming food waste collections”.<\/p>\n

The plant will process household food by removing contaminants before breaking down microorganisms which then creates a biomethane gas<\/a> that can be fed into the network. <\/p>\n

The leftover material is nutrient rich and can be used as a fertiliser for farmers’ fields, Eborne added.<\/p>\n

Councillor Threlfall said: “My residents have lived with sulphurous smells from the landfill site for a long time and are worried this will exacerbate the problem.”<\/p>\n

Threlfall said some people were “deeply anxious” about the site, but that “encouraging steps” have been taken to minimise disruption.<\/p>\n

On the issue of potential bad smells, Eborne said: “They shouldn’t really smell it… everything is sealed and there’s an odour treatment at the back end”.<\/p>\n

The facility will run around the clock, although deliveries will be limited to 07:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and 07:00 to 15:00 on Saturdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work to begin building the nearly seven-hectare (17 acres) site at Park Grounds Farm is expected to begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-497910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}