01491 834 311 info@grundon.com Pay Grundon My Account Services Facilities About Responsibility News Careers Contact Pay Grundon My Account View Video food waste collection and recycling Reduce your carbon footprint and your costs Our dedicated food waste collection and recycling service helps you to reduce the amount of food waste being sent to landfill – helping you reduce your carbon footprint and your disposal costs. Home › Services › Food Waste Reduce your disposal costs Food waste is very heavy, segregating it can reduce your Landfill Tax fees and cut overall disposal costs Bin exchange service When we take away a full bin, we can replace it with a fully sanitised clean bin to go straight into your kitchen Reporting reduces food wastage Simple reporting helps identify where food waste and its associated costs can be reduced Every year, food waste costs the UK hospitality and food service sector an estimated £2.5 billion. That’s equivalent to 1.3 billion meals. From fast food restaurants to fine dining, from conference venues to corporate canteens, from pubs and hotels to large volume food processors, each has a role to play in the better management of food waste. We believe ideally, within the hospitality industry the only food that should be disposed of as wastage should be returned meals, out-of-date food, or food that has been spoiled, for example during the cooking process or in the case of a fridge or freezer breakdown. We recognise that in a commercial food production environment and in retail distribution centres, there will also be a certain degree of wastage. This may be due to perfectly good food failing to meet supermarket standards in terms of quality, shape or sizing; it could be the need to reduce wastage when certain products are being made; over-production; or simply wrong labelling which means pallets of perfectly good food are turned away at the point of arrival. Wherever the food waste comes from, what happens next is the question. All too often food waste ends up in landfill, a process that, because of its weight, will incur heavy penalties in Landfill Tax charges and does nothing to help you attain the goal of zero waste to landfill. There is also the problem that as food waste biodegrades, it releases harmful greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which contribute to climate change. We believe there is no excuse to continue throwing food into landfill, especially when there is a much better solution – the segregation of food waste at source in kitchens and production facilities. Our dedicated food waste collection service is especially designed for the hospitality and food processing industries. It is used by a large number of our customers, who can vouch for our track record and their success in cutting costs. Put simply, we take the hassle of food waste away, we have a specialist range of bins and we offer advice, training and clear signage to help your employees understand the best approach. And, because we work so closely with customers across the food service industry, we know that space back-of-house can be a real challenge. We provide kitchen food waste caddies – a bigger version of the ones many of us use at home – and our 120 litre food waste bins are designed to fit under-the-counter in the kitchen and food preparation areas. With clip down, non-spill lids, they don’t need liners or bags as they have rounded bottoms for easy cleaning and maintaining hygiene. They are secure to eliminate access to pests (e.g. rodents and flies), and their lightweight design reduces the potential risk of manual handling injuries and makes them easy to manoeuvre. We also know that kitchen bins can hide a multitude of sins in food waste terms, so we weigh your bins at the point of collection, enabling us to provide detailed reporting statistics. These can help you identify additional areas for savings, such as over-purchasing and poor stock control, or monitoring portion sizes. We’ve all been served giant portions of chips and the ubiquitous salad that seems to accompany everything from a sandwich to a steak, whether we want it or not. In addition, our dedicated software means it is easy to monitor your food waste tonnage and track trends, for example, when you introduce seasonal specials or promotions, helping you to see if they are a hit or a miss with customers. And when your bin is full, you can take advantage of our bin exchange service, so when we take it away, we’ll replace it with a fully-sanitised clean bin – all part of our seamless food waste service. The solution for larger quantities of waste in a food production environment, or indeed a large venue such as a shopping centre with plenty of fast food outlets, is to supply a mobile food waste compactor. This ensures that after the food waste is collected in the bins, it can be easily emptied into the compactors, which are 100% leak-proof. Because they can store larger amounts of food waste, the number of collections required will be reduced. There is another advantage to our food waste recycling service and it is one which guarantees a big tick in the box for your green credentials. All the food waste we collect is sent to Anaerobic Digestion (AD) facilities, where naturally occurring organisms break it down to produce biogas, which is then converted into renewable electricity and fed into the National Grid; in addition to producing fertiliser which is used for agriculture and land regeneration Our specialist food waste collection vehicles also avoid adding to your carbon footprint because they are all certified CarbonNeutral®, so we don’t add to your carbon footprint when we come to collect those bins. Whether you are a gastro pub, a busy shopping centre, a food manufacturer or a large conference centre – spare a thought for how you dispose of your food waste today, and we can help you serve up success for tomorrow. Why should I segregate and recycle my food waste? + What types of customers could benefit from food waste collections? + Food processors and manufacturers must require something larger than food waste bins? + Won’t a separate food waste collection be more expensive? + What happens to the food waste once you’ve taken it away? + What food waste bins can we supply? + I think it will be difficult to persuade my kitchen staff to change their habits. + What can I dispose of in my food waste bin? + How can I use the food waste reporting to reduce my disposal costs? + Can I specify the timing of my collection? + Boost your recycling performance and reduce costs with food waste recycling Contact us now to see how our food waste collection service can reduce your carbon footprint and disposal costs 01753 686 777 sales@grundon.com What's happening in our world 17 November 2021 Grundon drives home the road safety message Read 16 November 2021 The explosive dangers of pressurised vessel disposal Read Total waste management from Grundon Looking for Grundon Sand & Gravel? www.grundonquarries.com GET IN TOUCH 01491 834 311 info@grundon.com STAY IN THE LOOP Sign up to our newsletter Email Grundon Waste Management Limited Registered in England No. 4245965 | Registered Office: Thames House, Oxford Road, Benson, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 6LX | Email: marketing@grundon.com | VAT registration No. 785 4156 01 | The Grundon name and Grundon Recycle designation are protected trade marks. | Member of Environmental Services Association. © GRUNDON 2021. 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