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Recycled Yorkshire garden waste now on sale in Booths supermarkets

Neil Harper (left) with Tom Hargreaves and Sam Wright with bags of Yorganics outside the Booths store in Settle

A nationally accredited compost made from the recycled garden waste of people living in Yorkshire is now on sale at independent family owned retailer Booths.

And the product is proving popular with shoppers with 1,246 bags being sold in the first month of it going on sale.
The peat-free compost, which is made by North Yorkshire-based company Yorganics, is produced using the green waste recycled by people living in North Yorkshire, Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Wakefield, Rotherham and Sheffield.

It is taken to local processing facilities where it undergoes a rigorous and highly scrutinized 11-week process to turn it into a compost which meets the British Standards Institution’s PAS100 standard, a nationally recognised standard within the organics recycling sector.

Yorganics is now available in 25 Booths stores across North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.
It follows a pitch made by Yorganics and its distributor, Harrogate-based Harper Bagged Products, to Booths’ buyer Tom Hargreaves.


Tom said: “We’re continually looking for ways to enhance our horticulture offering to customers, not only is Yorganics environmentally friendly but it’s also made in Yorkshire and we try where possible to support our local suppliers. It’s a great addition to the range and combined with a market-leading deal, it’s proving popular with our customers.’’

Yorganics Field Sales Executive Sam Wright said: “Getting our peat-free, 100% recycled, local sourced compost into a highly-regarded retailer like Booths is a major boost and we are delighted it is selling so well, so quickly.

“It means Yorganics is now available across an even wider geographical area and along with our fantastic other stockists, we are raising awareness of our nationally accredited product which ideal for domestic, horticultural and agriculture use.
“Because it starts life in peoples’ gardens and effectively returns there, it is an excellent example of closed loop recycling, which is so important as we strive to protect the environment.”

Neil Harper, Managing Director of Harper Bagged Products, said: “The feedback we are receiving from the stockists we are distributing Yorganics to is that this a high quality product which is proving very popular with shoppers because it comes from locally recycled green waste and they feel by using it, they are doing their own little bit for the environment.”

A full list of Yorganics stockists is available from the Yorganics website.