National
biological
infrastructure.
We acquire, re-engineer, and operate a family of UK organics facilities — turning council green waste into verified living soil for farms, market gardens and kitchen gardeners alike. From 10m² to 1,000 hectares.
One soil, every scale. From a farmer's field to a kitchen gardener's bed — verified biology, published standard, one loop closed.
UK organics infrastructure is ageing, fragmented, and quietly breaking — at the exact moment British farms are paying 2024 prices for 2020 inputs, and a generation of gardeners led by the No Dig movement are asking for better compost than anyone at scale is producing. Greenfield capacity cannot be built at the speed the country needs it.
TeraEarth acquires permitted sites from retiring owners, upgrades them as fully enclosed, odour-negative, verified-biology facilities, and supplies farms, market gardens and kitchen gardeners under a single published standard. Every kilo of our compost is a kilo of imported synthetic fertiliser not bought. Scale through acquisition. Quality through science. Trust through transparency.
Three disciplines. One standard.
Buy permits, not build them.
We acquire established UK organics operators — family businesses and distressed sites with permitted, operating, council-contracted capacity. We inherit every slow permission. We keep the local name. We keep the team. We bring the capital, the engineering, and the standard.
Enclosed. Odour-negative. Insurable.
Every acquired site is re-engineered inside a sealed, negative-pressure building. Process air is captured, scrubbed, and passed through an engineered biofilter before discharge — verified below olfactory detection at the boundary. Compartmented to FM Global standards, with continuous in-pile monitoring and firewater containment. Communities get a site they wouldn't drive past.
Every batch carries its passport.
Every bag and every bulk load ships with a Compost Passport — a QR-linked record of the town its green waste came from, the batch date, the microbial assay, the maturity and the carbon footprint. Through our independent science partnership, results are externally audited. What you see on the data sheet is what was measured in the field.
What happens between the gate fee and the data sheet.
Indoors, before the first shred.
Collection vehicles tip inside a sealed reception hall. Air is drawn immediately into the capture system. Contamination — plastics, glass, wood, metal — is separated by the sorting line. Feedstock is shredded, blended to a target carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, and moisture-balanced before it enters the biological stages.
Staged — not sloganed.
Thermophilic heating validates pathogen and weed-seed kill to PAS 100 and ABPR Category 3, held at 60–70 °C for the minimum time required. A turned mesophilic cure rebuilds the fungal biomass that sterilising temperatures would destroy. A separate climate-controlled zone handles inoculation and vermiculture finishing. Each stage is logged at depth, on a 10-metre grid.
Batch-tested before it leaves the door.
Every outbound batch is sampled and tested against our published Output Quality Specification — plastic content, maturity, organic matter, microbial viability, fungal-to-bacterial ratio, heavy metals. Results are linked to the batch ID and travel with the product. Where the target isn't met, the batch doesn't leave.
One soil. Every scale.
Farms
Ten to a thousand hectares. Regen arable, vineyards, soft fruit, outdoor veg, orchards, estates. Delivered bulk at the gate. Replaces 40–60 kg/ha of synthetic nitrogen, rebuilds soil organic carbon, and unlocks SFI / CAP / NRCS payments that the amendment alone earns.
Market gardens & allotments
The No Dig Revolution, at commercial scale. Bulk bags for small producers, allotment sites and school gardens — the working middle the movement has waited for. Partnered with Roots Allotments' national community network.
Kitchen gardeners
Ten square metres of soil deserves the same standard as a thousand hectares. Retail and direct-to-door bagged product, batch-numbered, each bag shipped with a Compost Passport linking it to the town whose green waste made it.
Our farm customers and our allotment customers share the same data sheet and the same supply chain. One soil, every scale, verified — and every kilo of it a kilo of imported synthetic fertiliser we didn't buy.
The No Dig Standard. PAS 100, exceeded — with a biological tier on top.
Councils procure to PAS 100. We meet it on every parameter. But PAS 100 is a safety and maturity specification — it does not describe the living biology that determines whether compost performs in a working soil. Our standard adds that tier. We publish the target for every parameter, and every site publishes its batch-level results.
| Parameter | PAS 100 requirement | TeraEarth target |
|---|---|---|
| Physical contaminants (plastic >2 mm)BS EN 16202 | ≤ 0.25% m/m | < 0.12% |
| Pathogen reduction (thermophilic phase)ABPR Category 3 · time-at-temperature validated | ≥ 60 °C, 7 days | 60–70 °C, validated per batch |
| Stability & maturitySolvita or CO₂ respiration | Pass | Solvita ≥ 6 |
| Organic matterBS EN 13039 | ≥ 25% DM | ≥ 35% |
| Weed propagule count | ≤ 3 per L | < 1 per L |
| Fungal-to-bacterial ratioPLFA / microscopy | Not specified | ≥ 0.75 (horticultural grade) |
| Microbial viabilityqPCR + SIR respiration | Not specified | Batch-tested · published |
| Carbon footprintISO 14067 · cradle-to-gate, third-party verified | Not specified | Published within 18 months |
Target values above reflect published commitments; independent-laboratory validation and public dashboard are in commissioning. Where values are stated as ranges, these reflect operating envelopes rather than single-point targets.
The policy, capital, and buyer stack reset at once.
Simpler Recycling
From March 2026, every English council must secure compliant organics processing capacity. Demand is non-discretionary. The procurement conversation shifts from "why would we pay more" to "can you guarantee capacity."
Peat-ban displacement
The 2030 professional peat ban removes around one million cubic metres of growing-media supply with no equivalent UK alternative. Coir imports fill the mass market; the premium segment is open to verified-biology UK product.
Operator succession
A generation of founder-operators is retiring into a regulatory cycle they cannot fund. Fire prevention, odour H1 assessments, and EA compliance expectations now exceed what £3–5m of annual turnover can absorb. This is our inbound pipeline.
Contracted, counter-cyclical
UK infrastructure capital is searching for deployable, long-contracted, counter-cyclical assets. Organics — with ten-year council offtake contracts on one side and rising horticultural demand on the other — fits the brief more cleanly than AD or EfW.
Sister companies. One movement. Separate books.
TeraEarth Limited operates the infrastructure. Roots Allotments — our sister company, founded earlier by the same principal — operates a growing network of community allotment sites. Together they close the loop between urban food-growing and national organics processing. They are not the same company. They never will be.
Disclosure · Related-party relationship
Because the principal is common to both businesses, we treat the relationship as a material related-party matter. It is governed by four hard rules, which apply from first investor close:
The full governance pack — shareholder structures, transfer-pricing policy, board reserved matters, and independent-chair terms of reference — is available to investors on NDA. See the investor memorandum →
How we work — written down.
We publish our method and our assays.
Our soil is measured before it is sold. The Output Quality Specification is public. Our independent science partnership, once appointed, will publish under its own name — not ours. We do not claim what we cannot show.
Every site has a liaison committee — and a live complaints dashboard.
A Community Liaison Committee at every facility, with elected resident members and an independent chair. A 24/7 complaints line. A published monthly dashboard of odour, bioaerosol, and traffic metrics. The community that borders the site is the community that governs it.
Ten-year contracts. Predictability over premium.
We underwrite long council relationships, not merchant gate-fee arbitrage. Certainty of supply matters more than the margin on a single load. The councils we work with will know us by the same name, at the same facility, in ten years.
We buy to invest. Not to flip.
When we acquire a site, we keep the trading name for eighteen to twenty-four months. We keep the technical team, the weighbridge operators, the council account managers. We invest capital before we change names. The worst outcome in our sector is a reset that loses trust.
Five conversations we'd like to have this year.
TeraEarth is a new company building a long one. If you recognise yourself in one of these lanes, please write. We read every message personally. A reply is usually within one working day.
Investors
Raising a £12m seed to fund our platform acquisition, two bolt-ons, and enclosure upgrade within eighteen months. Memorandum available on request.
Read the memorandum → 02Local authorities
If you are securing compliant organics processing capacity for 2026 or beyond, we would like to share our facility standard, our community posture, and our gate-fee reference model.
councils@teraearth.com → 03Operators considering succession
If you run a permitted UK organics facility and are exploring options for your next decade, please write in confidence. We offer continuity of name, of team, and of council relationship.
ma@teraearth.com → 04Science & supply partners
We are appointing one UK academic partner for microbial and soil-biology assay, and a small number of offtake partners in premium growing media, landscape supply, and regenerative agriculture.
partners@teraearth.com → 05Press & editorial
For on-the-record commentary on UK organics infrastructure, the peat ban, or the acquisition market — the principal is available for briefings and profile interviews.
press@teraearth.com → 06Anything else
Questions we haven't anticipated. Ideas worth testing. An introduction we should take. The general line is read by the principal personally — it's the fastest path for anything informal.
hello@teraearth.com →