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Blackmore Vale Magazine, 5 August 2010

CARDBOARD SCHEME MAY BE EXTENDED AFTER SUCCESS

HAPPY HORSES: Waste cardboard from Honeybuns bakery in Holwell is turned into horse bedding and bought back by the bakery for use in their stables. Pictured is bakery manager Charlotte Drake-Smith, and behind her is pony Molly and Bee

 

A burgeoning waste management company are hoping to extend their recycling scheme across the country.


J & G Environmental collect and recycle waste from more than 2,000 companies, including thousands of tons of discarded corrugated cardboard.
Since last year the company, based in Blandford, Dorset, have been turning the waste cardboard into bedding for horses as well as other animals.

More than 700 of the 20kg bales, called JeeGee Bedding, were snapped up in the first few months of production.

Using custom-built cutting and shredding equipment, the company now process and bale cardboard for stables and equine centres across Dorset.
Among their customers are Matt and Emma Goss-Custard, owners of Holwell-based bakery Honeybuns.

The firm's cardboard waste is taken away by J&G workers, processed and returned as bedding for the couple's horse Bee and pony Molly.

Mr Goss-Custard said: "We have lots of boxes for ingredients, and we get it back for bedding. Once we use it as bedding, it goes on the dung heap and we use it in the garden at the back of our Bee Shack cafe and shop. The food from the garden is used in our shop."

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