Food Waste Recycling The Smart Waste Way
Stephens Smart Waste’s dedicated food waste collection and food waste recycling service help you and your company to reduce the amount of recyclable food waste being sent to landfill. This means that not only can you reduce your business carbon footprint, but it can also reduce your waste management costs by lowering the amount of landfill tax that your company pays. By segregating your recyclable food waste, it can be diverted from landfill and instead be recycled to produce agricultural compost and renewable energy.Stephens Smart Waste Food Waste Recycling
Our food waste collection and food waste recycling service are targeted at the retail, hospitality and catering sectors, including:-• Pubs
• Clubs
• Restaurants
• Hotels
• Canteens
• Fast food outlets and takeaways
• Food processing facilities
Why recycle food waste?
Disposing of food waste without considering recycling is a waste of energy for your business and a disregard for the resources used to produce, package, transport and store it in the first instance. The majority of food waste collected from businesses is currently sent to landfill, where it is left to biodegrade. The food waste releases greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)- which are the main contributors to climate change. Due to the levels of CO2 pollution that food waste generates, it is expected that the British Government will make it illegal for food waste to be sent to landfill in the near future.By recycling your food waste, your business can reduce the amount of food sent to landfill, which in turn reduces your company’s carbon footprint. Did you realise that if everyone in the UK were to recycle their food waste, it would have the same positive impact on greenhouse gases as removing one out of every four cars you see on our roads today?
Food waste also weighs a lot more than other comparative waste streams such as recyclable waste and general residual waste. This means that by food waste recycling and sending less food waste to landfill, your business would significantly reduce the amount of landfill tax your company has to pay.
Food waste collected and food waste recycled via our food waste collection service is taken to an anaerobic digestion facility for processing. Once your food waste arrives at the anaerobic digestion facility, naturally occurring micro-organisms break down your business food waste to produce a biogas and a nutrient-rich fertiliser used within agriculture and also in land regeneration. The biogas produced by your company food waste is converted into renewable electricity in gas engines which is then fed to the National Grid.
What are the benefits of Stephens Smart Waste’s food waste recycling service?
Our food waste collection and recycling service do have many other benefits.Stephens Smart Waste have now introduced our new 25-litre multi-purpose dedicated food waste collection boxes. These food waste collection boxes are very easy to handle and they are modular which makes them easy to stack and very easy to clean. The light weight design and size of the waste food collection boxes enable them to fit in the smallest of kitchen sinks, which makes cleaning them very easy. Additionally, the most important thing about the food collection boxes is that they only take up a very small footprint, unlike existing 240 litre bins used by other providers. The food boxes are a modular fit that go neatly under-the-counter or stackable in most food preparation areas. One benefit of the modular containers is that you can view at a glance what food waste is being put into the boxes. Another benefit is that the modular containers are lighter and easier to manoeuvre, reducing the potential for manual handling injuries and due to the way the collection service works, the containers can be easily weighed back at our depot so that your waste management costs are reduced.
Food Waste Recycling The Smart Waste Way
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Each food waste recycling container has its own individual unique RFID chip system. As the food waste recycling containers are equipped with their own transponders, the food waste emptying data is transmitted via telematics, and evaluated in the office with appropriate software linked to the master data. By analysing this data, we can calculate the number of food waste recycling boxes, bins or food pallet boxes being emptied. Using this data, in combination with the weighing system, it is possible to charge fees according to weight, this type of billing provides incentives to separate the waste in the first place at the point of collection.
The exchanged food boxes when delivered to the customer have a new liner fitted ready for use, also the secure design eliminates access to pests, such as rodents and flies.
We offer a food box exchange scheme, ensuring that when we take away your full food box, you have a fully cleaned food box with a new liner fitted ready for use, to go straight back into the kitchen. Our waste weighing facility ensures straightforward reporting of food waste tonnages and our brand new software package provides easy monitoring and trend tracking of the business food waste you are recycling.
Speak to a member of our team at your local depot about how Stephens Smart Waste can provide your business with food waste collection and food waste recycling as part of our total waste management service.
