{"id":644207,"date":"2026-06-17T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644207\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:05:12","slug":"food-waste-plant-could-make-town-compost-bin-for-the-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644207\/","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":644208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}