A green technology company has set out its plans to build a number of “hubs” in the Wye Valley, aiming to convert the area’s considerable supply of poultry litter into biochar – a slow release fertiliser.
The company, Onnu, says it has already demonstrated the efficacy of the “pyrolysis” process on the ground in Namibia – combusting organic matter in the absence of oxygen to produce biochar.
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It now plans to bring the technology to the Wye Valley, with the aim of setting up 16 hubs in the next four years which, it says, would buy poultry litter from farmers as a feedstock for the process.
While there are “no spades in the ground yet”, company spokesman Iain Halpin says the c…
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