The Knock out News Team Visit the Hollybush Garden Centre Recycling Plant

Unfortunately the Headteacher's lap-top
crashed and all the KON articles lost.

Garden waste, Christmas trees etc from the whole of the West Midlands arrive at this site to be turned into either wood chip material ( to prevent the growth of weeds) or organic compost normally derived from peat in the most spectacular parts of UK.

This £80,000 machine grinds garden refuse and small shrubs to a pulp which will ferment at 80 degrees C over time to be reduced to organic compost.

Many JCB machines are working around the clock to move the organic waste or turn the hot organic piles

The smoldering organic waste heaps

These heaps will be turned into organic compost and preserve areas of national beauty in the British Isles reducing the need to dig up precious moorlands for peat to be turned into compost.

Parts of Yorkshire and Derbyshire have had peat areas dug up. This has had an impact on wild life habitats. Rare species of animals have been lost. Where peat has been dug up for Garden Centre purposes in those areas of natural beauty, erosion has occurred further adding to the problems in those areas.

Raw material being ground up

Team photo!

Notice those huge trees on the right. A £150,000 machine has been ordered to deal with those immense tree trunks!

Team photo in front of the Holllybush Garden
Centre's latest machine acquisition.

The Hollybush Garden Centre are sensitive to the fact that when the wind blows in the wrong direction, some nuisance is caused to Cheslyn Hay residents. On occasion, it does smell.

But the cause is environmentally friendly and protecting the destruction of some of the most beautiful parts of the UK.
The Hollybush Garden Centre are sponsors of School PTFA` projects and the School website.