The team at St Helens Readymix Plant in the North West have been busy recycling old pallets, bricks and other waste materials to build an amazing bug hotel on a piece of waste land adjacent to the plant.

The scrub habitat around the plant has been developed together with Plant Manager, Kevin Millington, and Sean Cassidy, Biodiversity Manager Europe, over the last 18 months. The site already has nesting boxes and bird feeders and attracts a variety of birds such as Songbirds, Bullfinches, Goldfinches, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Greenfinches, Dunnocks, Robins and Long Tailed Tits. A red fox and hedgehogs are also regular visitors!

Continuing this work to increase biodiversity the local Operations team, including Plant Manager, Kevin Millington, and Relief Managers, Charles Woodhouse, Neil Barton, Colin Beechey, Martin Storey and Gary Wellsbury, all worked hard to enhance the area with the fantastic new bug hotel made from old pallets, bricks, moss and bracken. Additional small bug hotels and a kestrel box were also added. The bug hotels are great for insects including pollinators such as mining bees.

We look forward to finding out who visits their new hotel!!