Food recycling
Food waste recycling collections can be tailored to suit your business needs. Once collected, food waste bins are emptied at our yard and washed. The food is then taken to Biogen, where they use anaerobic digestion (AD) to convert it into biogas and liquid biofertiliser. Biogas generates renewable electricity whilst biofertiliser is spread onto Bedfordia farms local to the AD plant to help grow crops.
963,701 kg
of food recycled in the last 30 days
- A short video from our friends at Biogen
- Anaerobic digestion is the UK government approved method for handling food waste
- Learn about the science behind food recycling
- Discover what really happens to your food once it's been collected
How do we collect?
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Kerbside food recycling sack
- For customers with little or no storage space
- Easy-to-use plastic sacks for recycling your food waste
- Supplied on a roll, and purchased upfront
- Collections take place from the pavement outside your workplace
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Wheeled bins
- For larger producers of food waste, we provide specially designed wheeled bins
- Full bins are exchanged for empty, clean bins at each collection
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Worktop caddies
- Small caddies can be kept on the worktop in your kitchen or tea station area
- Keep the food waste contained, and your workplace looking its best
- Lined with bio-sacks
- Once full, the worktop caddy can be emptied into a larger caddy, kerbside sack or wheeled bin for collection
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Larger caddies for food waste
- Used to store full bio-sacks from smaller worktop caddies
- Or can be lined themselves and filled directly with food waste
- These caddies are emptied on collection
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Colour-coded liners
- Help your cleaners recycle well
- Sack colour matches wheeled bin
What happens to your food recycling
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Food waste is generated at your business
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We collect your food waste in wheeled bins
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Our food truck will exchange your full bins for clean, freshly washed bins
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Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is used to convert your food waste into biogas and liquid biofertiliser
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The biogas is used to produce clean renewable electricity
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Close the loop by buying back electricity from nPower
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Biofertiliser is spread onto local farmland to help grow more food
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How do we collaborate with you?
We've perfected our approach to working with our clients over the last 30 years to maximise their recycling rates
