Food Chain Magazine - Save on waste, save on the bottom line

Published - Friday, 30 September, 2011

Kate Cawley’s team is ahead of the competition with awareness of how their services can help businesses to tackle spending on waste management and boost their bottom line.

Kate has recently spoken to Food Chain magazine and discussed changes within the industry. Internal training means that Cawleys employees are now better able to assist both consumers and businesses who want to save money on waste management. In past years, many businesses have failed to look at spend in this area and how it can be improved upon. Cawleys is keen to change this and demonstrate to businesses how waste can be utilised and converted into a valuable resource.

All Cawleys employees believe strongly in the virtues of the Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of food waste as a sustainable and cost saving alternative to landfill in light of annual hikes in landfill tax. It is alongside this passion that work with the Adelie food group has proven so worthwhile.

Cawleys waste management division Wastesolve is helping educate employees at all Adelie food group sites to dispose of waste in a sustainable way. Through enrolment on Wastesolve’s Ready Steady Green programme, employees are learning how to recycle and sort their waste, in turn helping the environment. In the first two months following the launch of the scheme in October 2010, Adelie generated c. 50,000 KwH electricity through sending food waste to anaerobic digestion and diverted 160 tonnes of food waste from landfill.

Food chain magazine, Issue 2 2011, 05.09.2011, written by Kate Cawley.