‘We have been running for a few months now, the first compost has just started coming through the machine and I am really pleased with its quality and the speed with which it has composted. The waste in the Ridan is much hotter than the waste we used to hold in our old tumblers, you can now see the water vapour rising from it as soon as you lift the lid off. We are not hitting the 50 degrees plus suggested on your website, possibly because at the moment we are using well decomposed leaf mould rather than wood pellets as the carbon component. This might also explain why the compost is coming out wetter than it probably should. But as I said the compost produced by the Ridan is good stuff (despite not operating under optimal conditions), will dry off in the finishing container and we are saving money and being greener by not buying in wood pellets.’
Matthew Lawson
IPO Office Newport
May 2018