Cornerways Nursery

Cornerways Nursery is one of Britain’s most sustainable and energy-efficient nurseries. The greenhouse at Wissington, Norfolk, uses no fuel for heating. All the heat needed to maintain a year-round growing temperature of around 20oC is provided by using recycled water from the sugar making process in the combined heat and power (CHP) system in the adjacent British Sugar processing plant. The CHP system generates over 70 MW of electricity which powers the factory and around 100,000 nearby homes. It also produces steam and high temperature water for use in sugar processing.

Low-grade heat from the CHP system, in the form of hot water, is piped to Cornerways Nursery to heat the 18 hectare greenhouses. A duct connecting the factory to the greenhouses also provides around 2,400m3 per hour of CO2-rich flue gas. Some of the CO2 is absorbed by the growing tomatoes, further reducing the ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions from the sugar factory.

Cornerways goes further than just reusing resources from the adjacent British Sugar factory. The nursery stores and re-circulates all its rain and runoff water, green waste is composted in a unique system and pests are managed through chemical-free bio-control.

Source: Greenery UK News (Sustainable Cornerways Nursery joins The Greenery and Coforta cooperative; http://www.greeneryuk.com/news.php?it_ref=952)

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