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Improving Soil Health

How to improve your soil health Soil health refers to the soil’s ability to provide a living, sustainable ecosystem for plants, animals and micro-organisms that live within it. Optimal soil health will provide the nutrients needed for healthy plant growth and provide food and shelter for anything that lives within it. Why is soil health…

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Envar Composting in partnership with The Homefire Group

Envar Composting Ltd is pleased to announce its partnership with The Homefire Group, a leading provider of sustainable heating solutions. Together, we aim to provide a sustainable solution to recycling coffee grounds. The Homefire Group expressed their enthusiasm for the partnership, stating, “We are delighted to announce that we are working in partnership with Envar…

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Groundswell 2023

Last month we attended the Groundswell 2023 Agriculture Festival in Hertfordshire. We exhibited with our show trailer and brought along samples of our Soil Improver, Woodland Mulch and Woodchip. Our representatives had many conversations with interested parties regarding our products and composting services. The event was well attended with plenty of talks throughout the 2…

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Recycling Waste Coffee grounds

Brew a Sustainable Future with Our Coffee Waste Recycling Service

Envar is pleased to announce that we are now accepting waste coffee grounds as part of our commitment to divert waste from landfill. With our coffee waste recycling service, we are thrilled to transform this often discarded by-product into sustainable reusable products. By recycling your coffee waste you can positively impact the environment, reducing your…

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Envar Composting Ltd acquires Bio-Bean Ltd

Envar Composting is extremely pleased to announce the acquisition of Bio-Bean Ltd assets, based in Cambridgeshire. Bio-Bean was the world’s largest recycler of spent coffee grounds, recycling thousands of tonnes annually into sustainable bio-products, specialising in the processing of waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels. “This was a great opportunity for us to acquire a…

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Supporting Stop & Grow for a Greener, Healthier Harrow

At Envar, we believe in giving back to the community and supporting initiatives that promote sustainability and wellbeing. That’s why we have had the pleasure of donating to and volunteering alongside the Stop & Grow project in Harrow. This fabulous project has been making a significant impact by providing an open, supportive green space and…

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Spent Mushroom Compost Product Launch

Envar is excited to announce the launch of our latest product: Spent Mushroom Compost. This compost is a by-product of mushroom cultivation and is an excellent soil improver and mulch for home gardens and allotments. Created from the substrate mushrooms grow in, Spent Mushroom Compost is a mixture of organic materials including horse stable bedding,…

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Compostable Coalition UK Advisory Board Unveiled

As part of its UK Research and Innovation-funded ‘Closing the Loop for Compostable Packaging’ research project, the Compostable Coalition UK has assembled an advisory board of big name industry and packaging experts, who are also members of the UK Plastics Pact. They will ensure the research project is objective, empirically robust and supports the priorities…

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14 tonnes of compostable packaging – on trial

With compostable packaging increasingly in demand, some voices are questioning whether these materials can break down in UK composting facilities. An item may hold compostability certification, but does that mean it can successfully break down in a real-world composting environment? Small quantities of compostable packaging can be industrially composted with food and garden waste, but…

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National Trust uses Envar soil improver

National Trust uses Envar soil improver

National Trust uses Envar soil improver It’s always great to hear our clients are pleased with our products & services! Envar has recently been working alongside the National Trust to provide our Rejuvenate Compost Soil Improver to the magnificent Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire. “We have used Envar for the 1st time this year and found…

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Single-use plastic ban and compostable alternatives

Earlier this month the government announced that a range of polluting single-use plastics will be banned in England from October 2023, following similar legislation already in place in Scotland and Wales. The ban will include single-use plastic plates, trays, bowls, cutlery, and certain types of polystyrene cups and food containers. Government figures suggest that 1.1…

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Composting trial of compostable products

Industrial scale composting trail of compostable products Envar is part of a government funded project known as the Compostable Coalition. The project will trial and evidence a closed loop solution for the effective collection sorting and industrial scale processing of compostable packaging and compostable products. The coalition consists of composting companies, compostable packaging providers, packaging…

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