'Waste not want not' - how British Sugar Topsoil hits the sweet spot between the environment and profit

This week's podcast was recorded at British Sugar Topsoil's plant at WIssington in Norfolk where they prepare topsoil for the landscaping and sports turf markets.Guest Andy Spetch reveals how the British Sugar brand goes beyond just creating 1.5m tonnes of sweetness a year, to produce power for the National Grid and for glasshouses, fuel (bioethanol), animal feed - and, of particular interest to horticulture, topsoil.The company creates the product from around 250,000-270,000 tonnes annually from soil cleaned of sugar beet roots.He says: "It would be criminal if it was just dumped, and what would you do with it? So we recycle everything we can. ...We were able to grow the market and now everything we get, we sell." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.