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About Allium

Our focus is simple: improve soil, restore land and make sure nothing is wasted.

Allium was formed to put organic waste to productive use – not just diverting material, but improving land, supporting nature recovery and creating long-term environmental benefit.

In the early days, the focus was on restoring former landfill sites, processing organic waste into compost-like outputs that helped bring land back into active use. As the environmental and regulatory landscape evolved, the scope of the business expanded with it.

Today, Allium operates across three core areas: producing soil conditioners for agriculture, delivering land restoration and biodiversity schemes, and recovering energy from materials that can’t be composted. Each element supports the others within a single integrated system.

Overview

Our History

The origins of the business date back to 1900, when F. D. Todd established the company in Thirsk as a haulage contractor and road builder. Over successive generations, the business evolved alongside the changing needs of industry – from transport and aggregates to construction materials, waste management, organics recycling, and low-carbon energy.

While the work we do has changed and grown, the family’s connection to land and resources runs through it all.

Allium is owned and managed by the fourth generation of the Todd family, continuing a long tradition of adapting, investing, and innovating.

  1. 1900–1940

    Quarrying, road building, and general transport operations.

  2. 1940–1970

    Expansion of transport activities, specialising in the movement of aggregates and materials.

  3. 1970–1990

    Business expanded into heavy-side building materials, ready-mix concrete, plant hire, and skip vehicles. Business expanded into heavy-side building materials, ready-mix concrete, plant hire, and skip vehicles.

  4. 1996–2017

    Strategic shift towards the emerging waste management sector. Progressive divestment of other business interests and growth from a single skip vehicle into one of the largest fully integrated waste management operations in Yorkshire and the North East.

    Early adoption of recycling and landfill diversion practices, alongside recovery of value from residual waste streams. Became one of the first companies in the UK to export refuse-derived fuel (RDF) into Europe.

  5. 2014

    Carved out the organics business from Todd Waste Management to establish a dedicated operation. Commencement of green waste composting and land restoration activities.

  6. 2017

    Sale of Todd Waste Management, enabling full focus on organic waste recycling, soil products, and environmental land use.

  7. 2022

    Investment in a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, recovering energy from materials removed during composting. Development of private wire networks supplying heat and power locally.

  8. 2023

    Research programme supporting the safe and effective application of non-compliant composts to agricultural land.

  9. 2024

    Launch of the largest land restoration project to date, transforming a former landfill site in the North East into a nature recovery scheme and wildlife trail.

  10. 2025

    Sister business granted DEFRA licence as a Conservation Covenant Body, reinforcing technical expertise and regulatory standing.

About Us

Our People

Allium’s work is supported by a multidisciplinary team spanning operations, environmental management and compliance – combining technical capability with long-standing industry experience.

Richard Todd

Managing Director

Peter Todd

Operations Director

Ged Denny

Technical Director

Sandra Twinn

Finance Manager

Andrew Sheard

Plant Manager

Jason Kitching

Chief Engineer

Our Locations

Our sites are strategically located to support regional waste streams, land restoration projects, and low-carbon energy operations in Yorkshire and the North East.

Allium York

Alne Material
Recycling Facility,
Forest Lane,
Alne, York
YO61 1TU

Allium Malton

Knapton Quarry,
East Knapton,
Malton,
North Yorkshire
YO17 8JA

Allium Thirsk

Skipton on Swale
Airfield,
Sandhutton,
Thirsk,
YO7 4EJ