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Mar 29
New Telehandler for Land Restoration Sites
The 4R Group has recently purchased a JCB 53595 Agriplus telehandler with a 2.5 cubic meter bucket for use on their land restoration sites in Yorkshire. Currently being operated at the Womersley spoil tip, the machine moves 2-300 tonnes of…
Mar 23
The Grass Starts to Grow on the Allerton Bywater Colliery Spoil Restoration Site
In late autumn last year the restoration of the bare spoil areas on the Allerton Bywater colliery spoil tip were successfully completed by the Land Restoration team. We applied over 7,500 tonnes of a range of “waste” materials that…
Feb 23
(Class 1) HGV Driver Vacancy
Due to continued expansion, we are currently seeking to recruit an experienced HGV driver to work full time from Monday to Friday transporting by-products from Anaerobic Digesters to on farm recycling locations. Based in Bishop’s Cleeve,…
Jan 18
AD in Scotland – Conference Participation
Dr Paul Gibbs will be joining an impressive line-up of industry leaders speaking at the ADBA Scottish National Conference taking place on 15th February in Glasgow. Paul will be speaking during a session on anaerobic digestate quality…
Dec 01
The Value of Anaerobic Digestate
4R Group has recently completed an on-farm demonstration of the value of anaerobic digestate in agricultural production. Trials conducted this summer…
Nov 16
What a Difference a Day Makes
The Dubbers restoration site office is high above the village of Nanpean in central Cornwall and is where Tom Holt “meets and greets” deliveries of organics and gypsum for recycling on the site. As you can see from the photos, from…
Oct 31
Top Marks on Achilles Verify Accreditation
4R Group has recently achieved excellent Health and Safety (100%), Environmental (96%), Quality (98%) and Corporate Responsibility (100%) scores as part of their second assessment for Achilles UVDB B2 Verify Accreditation. The UVDB…
Oct 24
Womersley Restoration Phase Two in EA Hands
4R Group is pleased to announce that the application for phase two of the restoration of the Womersley spoil tip has now been submitted for approval by the Environment Agency. Once approved this 10 hectare zone will be treated with alkaline…
Sep 22
Benefits of Gypsum at Jersey Airport
4R Technical Director, Dr Paul Gibbs has this week been on the island of Jersey, advising Jersey airport on the benefits of using compost enhanced with gypsum, to encourage the growth of grass around airport taxiways. Monitoring of grass response…
Sep 22
Significance of 437 Competition Winner
At RWM 2016 we ran a competition on our stand to find out if visitors could guess ‘the significance of the figure 437 to 4R Group’ for the chance to win a bottle of champagne. We can reveal this is the current number of…
