The Ridan Composter is the ideal solution to our former problem of cooked waste disposal. It also fits in with our sustainable ethos within our community. The composter has proved itself to be a very worthwhile investment. Well done Ridan!’

Thanks for the delivery of the Ridan composter, today.

I am extremely excited to introduce this marvelous machine to St Leonard's Primary School. I have used them in two previous schools and they have worked wonders. The children loved being part of the whole process and and felt proud when organic gold was being produced and put back into the growth cycle.

Long live the Ridan!

By installing the Ridan™ Composting System, not only have we raised awareness of how much waste we produce on site, we have also created a keen interest in how best to reduce or recycle it. The Ridan has created a big stir and captured a keen following amongst both inmates and staff due to its simple yet very effective operation. Financially the Ridan system will pay for itself within three years, but morally it is priceless’

Freeman Biodynamic Garden at High Riggs

We have been using the Ridan Pro 200 for 2 years now and are all very satisfied with the end result of a black brown compost.

It took some time to find the balance but we ended up with an average of 12kg fresh kitchen waste (peelings, cut offs etc) on a daily basis with 4 double hands of pressed wood pellets (conifer), 1 small trowel full of chicken pellets and 1 trowel of wood ash (mixed wood) wood pellets (conifer) .

The service we have received has been truly professional. Any problems we have encountered have been resolved almost immediately. So when it comes to creating a 'closed loop system' and benefiting from the opportunities we can create from sharing this with our customers then we all should work with Ridan.

Of all the different products the Trust has trialled over the last few years, we have found the Ridan composter to be the most suitable for our requirements, being simple to operate, cheap to run and inexpensive to buy and install; it also delivers an excellent quality compost.

We are all amazed at how well the Ridan works, how easy it is to use and how quickly it composts, as a result we now only have one bin collected every week instead of two and we have plenty of rich compost for the garden.
Stowford Primary School, Ivybridge, Devon

d’Auvergne School, Jersey

"I run the gardening after-school club each week, and we have been able to make tonnes of compost. It really is a fantastic device and initiative."

We are using the Ridan composter and is running just nicely .
We produce just the right amount of compost to keep our landscape contractor in fertiliser for our surrounding gardens/ plants

Composter is working really well. The pellets definitely work better than regular sawdust/chippings.

The sight of steam coming out of it when I crank the handle is more satisfying than it ought to be!

I have two children that come daily to help with the compost.They really enjoy coming and find it very easy to use.
We normally put around one bucket of food waste in each day but this can vary slightly.
I am also going to start a gardening club during which we will be using the compost, so the children will help out with this too.

We use our Ridan for composting a mixture of food waste from the teashop and house and green waste from the walled garden.

Our handyman Allen has taken ownership of the whole process and takes some pride in what he produces from the strange cylindrical machine.

We have found the service, advice and easy communication we get from the nice people at Ridan to be brilliant.

The Ridan is powering away, cruising at anywhere between 45-55 centigrade.  What really impresses me with the design is the combination of robustness and providing the appropriate biological operating conditions.The gearing on the tumbler shaft really makes turning practical. 

So thanks for your great Ridan – it’s already become a much loved colleague.

in the summer time our Ridan is flat out with 400 litres a week and then it is quiet for 3 months over the winter. The beauty is that it just keeps on working no matter what I do to it. Very little if any care and maintenance and it just deals with whatever is put inside it.

Congratulations on making a well engineered and well thought out unit.

Killary Adventure. Co. Galway, Ireland

It is rare these days to buy a product which exceeds your expectations like the Ridan. Food waste to usable compost takes just 10 weeks. Our tomatoes have been grown in the compost produced and are bigger and better than ever before, a lovely fine potting compost!

We need to educate people on how to reduce food waste; Birmingham could be a lot more sustainable as a city. Our long-term aim is to help our community to waste less in the first place but we also want to get local businesses interested in recycling excess food in a carbon neutral way.

We’ll be saying, "come and have a look at this, you can have one of these Ridan’s in your back yard; it composts your food waste, helps the environment and brings down your refuse bills!

The composter is steaming away nicely and we have our first school group in at the end of September so I hope to involve them and hopefully get us both some local publicity. We are also putting together a bid for some funding to purchase another one of your composters ( fingers crossed !) Thanks again

It is rare these days to buy a product which exceeds your expectations like the Ridan, food waste to usable compost takes just 10 weeks. Our tomatoes have been grown in the compost produced and are bigger and better than ever before, a lovely fine potting compost!

The waste in the Ridan is much hotter than the waste we used to hold in our old tumblers, you can now see the water vapour rising from it as soon as you lift the lid off.  We are composting all of our office food waste now. The compost produced by the Ridan is good stuff and we are saving money and being greener by not buying in wood pellets.

Our Ridan composter is working very well at the moment, hopefully producing lots of feed for our orchard come the spring. It has been worth every penny and we would have no hesitation recommending them to others.