A West-Midlands based contractor with a large composting operation – Jack Moody Ltd of Shareshill near Wolverhampton, secured a contract with Bellway Homes to landscape a massive new housing development – Grange Park - in Northampton using waste-derived compost. The compost used is produced at JMLs own facility using open windrows to PAS 100 standards, the material being sourced from landscape contracts and from municipal green waste in partnership with local authorities.

2000 cubic metres of compost soil-improver were used for the Northampton housing scheme, together with 1650 cubic meters of bark mulch covering 33,000 square meters of planting. This has led to such successful growth that the Grange Park site has now locally become known as “the hedgerows”.

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