The site in Bacup Road will be completely regenerated by TEG in a £2 million investment that will create an organic composting facility capable of handling up to 50,000 tonnes of waste each year.  Buildings currently on the site will be demolished to make way for a new, modern, enclosed building to house TEG's unique Silo Cage in-vessel composting technology and the whole area will be landscaped to complete the development of the site.  Work is due to commence in the summer and the site is expected to be operational by the middle of next year.

TEG already operates two commercial scale composting plants in the UK, one in Preston and a second in Perthshire, Scotland. Two other sites, Kildare in Ireland and Swansea in South Wales, are currently under construction and are expected to be operational later in the year. Plans are already advanced for a fifth TEG plant to be built in Norfolk and planning permission was granted recently for a sixth site in Somerset.

All sites are geared towards the production of high quality products in TEG's EnVigro[TM] range of high value, high quality organic fertilisers and derivatives. which are already used in a wide variety of agricultural and horticultural applications.

TEG Environmental's Chief Executive Mick Fishwick said: "TEG's business is all about taking a more environmentally responsible attitude towards waste disposal and the creation of an organic composting site in Todmorden provides a local facility for the responsible disposal of organic waste that historically was sent for landfill.  It will be a state-of-the-art facility using TEG's modern technology."