With an unmatched eco-story – including the completion of a brand-new CO2 capture plant – British organic peat-free brand, RocketGro is proudly leading the charge to become climate positive by the end of 2025.
RocketGro is on the precipice of a significant moment, not just for the Somerset peat-free business but for the industry as a whole.
Forget greenwashing and broad claims by companies about being sustainable, no other brand can deliver what RocketGro is doing; actively capturing and putting carbon back in the ground, powering thousands of homes with renewable gas, and encouraging consumers to embrace greener gardening practices by creating outstanding peat- and coir-free organic growing media.
The final significant step in its exciting journey is the completion of a CO2 plant at its biogas facility. This pushes RocketGro beyond achieving net-zero carbon emissions, so that the business is actually taking more carbon out of the atmosphere than it produces.
The result is that RocketGro is set to become the world’s first climate positive compost producer!
Let’s break the RocketGro business model down:
- 6,000 acres of farmland carefully and sustainably managed without using chemical fertilisers
- 25,000 tonnes of food waste processed each year, turned into biogas and fed back onto the farmland to grow more crops
- 91,000 tonnes of crops processed each year, turned into biogas and used as the core ingredient in RocketGro composts and growing media products.
- 3,300 homes powered by renewable green electricity every day – equating to 27,522 tonnes of carbon not being produced every year!
- 8,000 homes powered by green biogas every day! Equating to 180,384 tonnes of carbon not being produced per year.
- The bagging and bottling lines are run on 100% renewable energy produced on site
Managing Director Toby Thomas said: “We are on a carbon capture journey: growing the crops at our farm, which we use to create our amazing products, along with renewable energy to power more than 13,000 homes – it’s all one virtuous circle!
“It’s not an exaggeration to say that every time a gardener buys a bag of RocketGro compost, they are actively taking carbon out of the atmosphere! Retailers say they want to do more to be sustainable and we are leading the charge in greener gardening, so if you’re not already stocking RocketGro products, why not?”
Get in touch to discover what our unique range can do for your compost offer.
Find out more
If you want to learn more about RocketGro or are keen to discuss adding its product portfolio into your 2025 offering, please contact Toby Thomas (hello@rocketgro.co.uk /07936 928 981) or Andy Abraham (andy@rocketgro.co.uk / 07446 937902). View the full range and discover more about the RocketGro story at www.rocketgro.co.uk
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Notes to editors:
RocketGro was founded in early 2021, born out of a meeting of minds of two friends, Tim and Toby. Tim’s family has been successfully farming on their 5000-acre farm in the heart of Somerset for over 100 years. The farm produces an amazingly rich soil nourishing organic by-product from their biogas plant. The biogas powers thousands of homes, and until RocketGro was born, this by-product was only spread over the farmland, meaning the farm could avoid using chemical fertilisers.
Tim wanted to share this wonder product with gardeners all over the UK and he approached Toby to help him make this dream come true. RocketGro was born.
The RocketGro mission is to help gardeners move away from peat and therefore do our bit to help the environment. Our fabulous range of products is a near-total solution to any gardeners’ needs and the range is expanding even further. RocketGro puts a great deal of care and effort into producing our premium growing media products and aims to produce the finest compost products in a sustainable and nature loving eco-friendly way. Gardeners who become ‘RocketGrowers’ will see the difference.
