News: Sizer at the Great Yorkshire Show

Rotherham company, Sizer, will demonstrate how waste generated at the 152nd Great Yorkshire Show can be turned into an income stream.

Every year at Yorkshire's largest agricultural show 25 tonnes of horse manure is produced within the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate.

This year, Sizer Ltd, will demonstrate to visitors how their pelleting solutions can turn waste materials, such as manure, into cash and a renewable energy source for businesses. And as official sponsors of the show's "mucking out" points in the equestrian and livestock areas, Sizer will have plenty of waste to work with.

Roger Pearson, Managing Director of Sizer, said: "Many businesses generate waste in a variety of forms and getting rid of it usually involves a cost to the environment.

"We hope that our presence at the Great Yorkshire Show will inspire more businesses to get involved in pelleting. To date, we have successfully pelleted everything from horse manure to cocoa husks. We have turned plaster board and cement into fertilizer pellets and shredded waste paper from offices into pellets suitable for fuel.

"The Great Yorkshire Show is the perfect opportunity for local businesses and also farmers, to consider what they can do for the environment.

"Pelleting may be something visitors have never considered, or even heard of, before. We want to open people's minds to what can be created from waste materials, such as manure and discarded paper, usually destined for landfill."

Sizer engineers can be found in the "renewable energy area" of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society show held on Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 July 2010.

Sizer website

Images: sizer-pelleting.co.uk