Operations
A guide to commercial and industrial composting facilities.
The listings are grouped by regional council areas within New Zealand and by country for other locations within the South Pacific.
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New Zealand:
Northland Region:
No full composting activities reported. The Far North District Council has however reported green waste collection and mulching at two sites.
Contact: Matt Kearney
Auckland Region:
Auckland City: Pikes Point.
Operator: Living Earth Ltd.
Raw materials: Green waste.
Brief description: A mechanically turned windrow operation, with product sales both on site and through outside retail outlets.
Contact: George Fietje; website:www.livingearth.co.nz
 Auckland city: Unitec Institute of Technology.
Operator: Unitec Institute of Technology.
Raw materials: Food waste and green waste.
Brief description: A vertical in-reactor composting system, with on site product utilisation.
Contact: Richard Main
 Waitakere City: Waitakere City Council Refuse & Recycling Station, 50 The Concourse, Henderson.
Operator and Owner: Perry Environmental Ltd.
Raw material: Green waste, consented to process food-residuals.
Brief description: A vertical in-vessel composting system with a current capacity of 9,000 tonne/yr, operated on a 7-day cycle. Product harvested everyday and removed to an off-site location for further curing (product storage on-site not allowed by the resource consent).Sales to horticulture, cropping and landscaping.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
Waikato Region:
Hamilton: Hamilton Organic Centre
Operator & Owner: Perry Environmental Ltd
Raw Material: Green waste
Brief description: An outdoor windrow system, with turning by excavator. Processing 20,000 cubic metres per year. Finished compost is “Bio-Gro” certified. Sales to horticulture, agriculture, cropping, landscaping and domestic users.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
Taupo: Taupo Organic Centre
Operator & Owner: Perry Environmental Ltd
Raw Material: Green waste
Brief description: An outdoor windrow system, with turning by excavator. Processing 14,000 cubic metres per year. Sales to horticulture, agriculture, cropping, landscaping and domestic users.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
Bay of Plenty Region:
Rotorua: Rotorua District Council WWTP.
Operator: Rotorua District Council, Marketing through Gardeners Gold Products.
Raw material: Green waste, sawdust, bark fines, lawn clippings & bio-solids
Brief description: Mechanical mixing, bin aeration then windrowing.
Contact: Andy Bainbridge
Tauranga: Tauranga Organic Centre, Truman Rd, Te Maunga.
Operator: Perry Environmental Ltd.
Raw material: Green waste.
Brief description: An outdoor windrow system processing 20,000 cubic metres per year, with turning by excavator. Finished compost is "Bio-Gro" certified. Sales to horticulture, agriculture, cropping, landscaping and domestic users.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
Hawkes Bay Region:
Napier/Hastings: Twin City Compost, Springfield Rd, Taradale, Napier
Operator: Napier City Council, trading as Twin City Compost.
Raw materials: Green waste.
Brief description: Outdoor windrow system with mechanical turning. Screened finished compost is sold in retail and wholesale quantities. Oversize material from the screening operation is used as landfill cover.
Contact: Dominc Salmon
Taranaki Region:
Inglewood: Green waste is separated, mulched and sold by the landfill contractor.
New Plymouth: Colson Road Transfer Station.
Operator: Manawatu Waste Ltd.
Raw materials: Green waste.
Brief description: Outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Retail and wholesale product sales are made from the site.
Contact: Bret Coleman
Okato: Green waste is separated, mulched and sold by the landfill contractor.
New Plymouth: Brixton Organic Centre
Operator & Owner: Perry Environmental Ltd
Raw Material: Green waste / paunch grass
Brief description: An outdoor windrow vermiculturesystem. Processing 8,000 tonnes per year. Sales to horticulture, agriculture, cropping, landscaping and domestic users.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
New Plymouth: Bell Block Organic Centre
Operator & Owner: Perry Environmental Ltd
Raw Material: Green waste / paunch grass
Brief description: An outdoor windrow vermiculture system. Processing 4,000 tonnes per year. Sales to horticulture, agriculture, cropping, landscaping and domestic users.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
New Plymouth: Uruti Organic Centre
Operator & Owner: Perry Environmental Ltd
Raw Material: Green waste & odorous organic wastes
Brief description: An outdoor windrow vermiculture system. Processing 56,000 tonnes per year. Consented to take and process all organic materials including “odorous” wastes. Sales to horticulture, agriculture, cropping, landscaping and domestic users.
Contact: Mike Lord; tel. +64 7 829 9678; Websites: www.perry.co.nz and www.revitalfertilisers.co.nz
Manawatu-Wanganui Region:
Wanganui: Budget Waste Transfer station, 27 Gilberd Street, Castlecliff.
Operator: Manawatu Waste Ltd.
Raw materials: Green waste.
Brief description: Outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Retail and wholesale product sales are made from the site.
Contact: Bret Coleman
Wellington Region:
Masterton: Nursery Rd Complex, Masterton.
Operator: Tararua Resource Recovery.
Raw materials: Green waste.
Brief description: Outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Compost, soil mix and mulch products are marketed wholesale and through an on-site retail outlet.
Contact: Philip Hancock
Wellington City: Owhiro Bay, Wellington.
Operator: Living Earth Ltd.
Raw materials: Biosolids, abattoir waste, greenwaste and woodwastes.
Brief description: Fully enclosed indoor facility using a 10 bay International Processing System (IPS). This system uses temperature controlled and forced aeration combined with daily agitation. Screened compost and compost products are distributed to urban and agricultural markets.
Contact: George Fietje; website:www.livingearth.co.nz
Johnsonville: Ohariu Valley Road.
Operator: Ohariu Valley Indoor Riding School
Raw materials: Mixed horse manure and sawdust.
Brief description: A naturally aerated bin system using three covered concrete bays operated in series, with turning and materials transfer by front end loader. Product is sold by the trailer load and in bags.
Contact: Richard Adgo: Ph: 04-477 3888; Fax: 04-478 4711
 Paraparaumu: Otaihanga Landfill, Otaihanga Rd., Paraparaumu
Operator: Composting New Zealand Ltd
Raw materials: Green waste and bark
Brief description: An outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Products are sold from the site in bulk, by the trailer load and in bags.
Contact: Brendon Mallia, Ph: 021 620 190
Marlborough District:
Blenheim: Blenheim refuse station.
Operator: Green Fingers Partnership.
Raw material: Green waste.
Brief description: Outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Compost marketed retail and wholesale.
Contact: Julie and Howard Williams, Fax: (03) 577 9114
Canterbury Region:
Ashburton: Ashburton Resource Recovery Park, McNally St, Ashburton.
Operator: Ashburton Contracting Ltd.
Raw materials: Green waste.
Brief description: An outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Screened compost is presently stockpiled.
Contact: John Scott; Ph: (03) 308 0160
Christchurch: Bromley metro refuse centre.
Operator: Christchurch City Council (trading as Garden City Composting).
Raw material: Green waste.
Brief description: Outdoor windrow system with mechanical agitation. Compost is marketed whole sale by tender.
Contact: Tony Moore
Christchurch: Factory Rd, Belfast.
Operator: PPCS Ltd.
Raw materials: Primary and dissolved air flotation sludges from meat processing wastewater treatment, combined with bark.
Brief description: An aerated static pile (Rutgers type) process, followed by maturation in windrows. Finished compost is sold in bags and in bulk under the registered name "BioBlend", from a contracted supplier, Canterbury Landscape Supplies.
Contact: Graeme Keeley (technical enquiries); or Canterbury Landscape Supplies (marketing enquires); Ph: (03) 323 7797.
 Kaikoura: Resource Recovery Centre, Scarborough Tce.
Operator: Innovative Wastes Kaikoura Ltd.
Raw materials: Green waste (food waste under trial).
Brief description: An in-house developed in-vessel horizontal composting unit (HCU). The reactor comprises a semi-continuous, covered long bin, located on a concrete base. Daily turning and moving of material is carried out using an excavator. Finished compost is primarily used as potting mix and bedding material for an associated tree nursery.
Contact: John Ransley; Phone: +64 3 319 7148
Rakaia: Rakaia Resource Recovery Park, West Town Belt, Rakaia.
Operator: Ashburton District Council.
Raw materials: Green waste and food residuals.
Brief description: Food waste is pulverised in a hogger and transferred to an agitated concrete bay for hot composting. The material is then vermi-composted in windrows and the final products sold.
Contact: Johan Fick
 Location: Rolleston.
Operator: Selwyn District Council.
Raw materials: Green waste, food residuals, meat processing waste.
Brief description: A horizontal, mixed, in-vessel system, with off-gas bio-filtration and condensate collection. Product is utilised on council gardens.
Contact: Dave Hock
 Location: Timaru.
Operator: Transpacific Industries Ltd.
Raw materials: Green waste, food residuals.
Brief description: A covered aerated static pile system. Product is used on council gardens and sold through landscape centres. Product trials in cropping and horticultural applications are presently in progress.
Contact: Brian Gallagher; Peter Martin
 Twizel: Ostler Road, Twizel.
Operator: Mackenzie District Council.
Raw material: Green waste, food wastes and fish processing wastes.
Description: A vertical in-reactor composting system. Commissioned in 2002.
Contact: Catherine Johnstone; Website: www.mackenzie.govt.nz/rrps/Contents.htm
Southland Region:
Gore:Miro Street, Gore.
Operator: Gore District Council, trading as Mirata Services.
Raw materials: Green waste collected from the parks & garden activities.
Brief description: A series of compost bins, the product will be used on the council garden plots.
Contact: Antony Clark
Invercargill City: Solid waste transfer station, Bond St.
Operator: Invercargill City Council and Bond Contracts.
Raw Material: Green Waste.
Brief Description: Shredding and windrowing system. The compost product is used for restoration of a landfill site.
Contact: Tom Greenwood or Russell Wood
PACIFIC ISLANDS
 Lord Howe Island, South West Pacific
Operator: Lord Howe Island Board
Raw Materials: Green waste, food waste, dewatered septic tank sludge
Description: A vertical in-vessel reactor system. The facility also includes a sludge dewatering plant. Product is used as a soil conditioner on public gardens and the golf course, and is also freely available to residents for use on private gardens.
Contact: Geoff Thomson: Ph +61-265-632 309; Website: www.lordhoweisland.info/environ/eco.html
No full composting activities reported for the following areas:
Within New Zealand: Tasman District, West Coast Region, Otago Region
SOUTH AMERICA, PACIFIC COAST
Chile:
Santiago:Penalolen
Operator: Agroindustrial Pullihue Ltda
Raw materials: Yard (green) waste, fruit and vegetable waste, horse manure, organic sludges and wood.
Brief description: An aerated static pile process preceeded by size reduction of yard waste and wood, using a tub grinder. Maturation is carried out separately, using a second aerated static pile system. Product is screened and sold by the truckload for landscaping applications and in bags.
Contact: Christian Couso Salas
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