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The Alderney Wildlife Trust is teaming up with local businesses to reduce the cost to the island of handling food waste and the reliance on imported compost.
The Alderney Waste to Food initiative is being led by Alderney Roots and has been made possible through corporate sponsorship from the trust company Fort Group and the commitment of two eateries – the Georgian House and Jack’s Brassiere – to divert green waste from conventional disposal into the compost barrel.
It’s hoped the new approach will also reduce the carbon produced during compositing and transport to the island, as well as providing high quality compost for local food production.
Data gathered from the nascent project will be used to assess whether expanded production would be viable.
The Alderney Wildlife Trust will also remove invasive plants from the area where the project is taking place, mostly sour fig.
Fortis donating funds to help purchase essential equipment and help with the installation of in-vessel compost technology.
Pictured: Volunteers helped set up the equipment on Alderney Roots's farmland.
The first year will be a transitionary period, with support from the States of Alderney and more businesses sought in 2025 to scale up the facility to produce compost on a commercial basis.
If all goes well, its hoped by the third year larger equipment can be purchased to include domestic food waste to take it to an island-scale.
Roland Gauvain, manager of the Alderney Wildlife Trust, said: “We hugely appreciate the support from companies such as Fort who truly value our work towards developing systems to both reduce carbon wastage and improve local sustainability”.
Graham McCormack, CEO of Fort, added: ‘Our team enjoy supporting local projects within the community like this. Making a positive environmental impact and reducing carbon emissions align with our values and we look forward to seeing how the project contributes to the Alderney Wildlife Trust’s larger goals for sustainability”.
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