Why separate food waste from your other waste?
Food waste has a bigger carbon impact than plastics, so it’s essential it is minimised and whatever is left is recycled. This is difficult for many hospitality businesses such as restaurants, pubs and hotels who produce large quantities of food waste. For nearly all these Westminster businesses, it is no longer acceptable to throw food waste away in general waste. Instead, you need to keep your food waste separate and use our environmentally friendly food waste recycling service to ensure the waste is turned into compost and biogas.
It is also important that businesses outside the hospitality sector are prepared for the upcoming legislation that will make it a requirement that all businesses separate their food waste. For more information on this legislation, please click here.
If you’d like to do more with your commercial food waste then talk to us today about our food waste recycling and collection service. We cater for any size of business whatever its waste collection needs.
Better still, keeping food waste separate from general waste will reduce your waste collection costs overall.
WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED AS FOOD WASTE
- Meat and fish leftovers including bones
- Eggs and all dairy products
- Vegetables and fruit including any peelings
- Bread, cake and pastries
- Coffee grounds and tea bags
- Flowers and floral decorations (not plastic and textile)
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF FOOD WASTE RECYCLING
- We ensure all food waste is treated locally with the maximum benefit to the environment
- Our food waste recycling service includes all the equipment (bins and bags) you need to manage collections in a hygienic manner that is fully compliant with animal by-product regulations
- We can help you stay ahead of the game by having food waste recycling collected separately since this will become compulsory for businesses under the Resources & Waste Strategy
- We use your food waste recycling to produce 100% renewable energy and fertiliser for agriculture
- Our collection vehicles are low emission or fully electric
- We are based in Westminster and don’t travel long distances to collect your food recycling, minimising vehicle movement
- Our food waste recycling service is tailored to suit you
OUR RESOURCES
Learn more about managing food waste in Westminster
If you’re interested in recycling your food waste but aren’t sure where to start then we have resources that can help you.
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Waste and recycling posters
Our waste management posters are the perfect way to provide you and your staff with all of the information you need to separate your rubbish properly. Our food waste poster is perfect for sticking up around your office or workplace.
Download now
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9 tips for reducing waste
This useful guide presents 9 tips that will not only help you reduce the amount of general waste you’re creating, but it will help you save time, money and the environment.
The guide includes:
- Stopping potential waste from being produced in the first place
- Finding solutions for reusing some of the items you no longer need
- Tips on how to reduce paper waste in the office
- Separating recyclable material from general waste
- Avoiding fines by placing bags out on the street at the wrong time or having it handled it incorrectly.
- Sending zero waste to landfill
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The ultimate guide to real recycling for businesses in Westminster
Discover how your business can improve how it recycles and manages its waste and become more environmentally sustainable with our recycling guide for Westminster businesses.
The guide includes:
- How to reduce, reuse, recycle and recover waste
- Getting started with recycling
- Choosing Westminster City Council as your commercial waste collector
- Disposing of waste during events
- Recycling special materials
- Creating and implementing a waste management plan
- Segregating waste and tackling contamination
- Further support for your business
WHERE WE WORK
Areas of operation
Whilst we only offer our services to businesses in Westminster, we can help you to find the best waste services possible if you are not in the area. This means that if you are a chain with multiple locations in London and across the country, we can still help you through our partnership with Veolia.