Food Waste Recycling Solution Launch

Published - Monday, 01 March, 2010

Cawleys and WasteSolve will be at the Food and Drink Expo 2010 on stand Q240 by ‘Mother Nature’ (as depicted on its head-turning food waste recycling lorries) and will be advising companies in the food and drink industry on how they can futureproof themselves against the escalating cost of landfill and likely introduction of legislation banning food waste from landfill by switching to green alternatives such as Anaerobic Digestion (AD).  In addition to AD, Cawleys’ Food Recycling Round, use a variety of other food waste recycling methods including in-vessel composting, waste to energy plants and rendering plants for animal by products.

Kate Cawley, Business Development Manager at Cawleys, commented:

“When used as part of a total waste management solution and in conjunction with Cawleys' state-of-the-art Total Mixed Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), which recovers and recycles as much general waste as possible, the food waste recycling round can help the food and drink sector work towards a zero landfill solution.”

The launch follows publication of Cawleys’ independent research into consumer attitudes to food waste recycling, ‘Eco eating: consumer attitudes to commercial food waste’.  According to the report, consumers believe that food waste recycling is far more effective at home than in a commercial setting with ninety-four per cent of respondents, saying they try not to waste food at home.  The British public also has strong views about what happens to food waste when they eat out: eighty-five per cent of people care about what goes on behind the scenes in restaurants and sixty-nine per cent say they care about restaurant food waste.

High-profile campaigns, such as WRAP’s `Love Food Hate Waste’ have ensured that householders are increasingly adopting the mantra `Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ when it comes to food waste and an increasing number of local authorities are now making household food waste collections.  The focus is now rightly moving to the commercial sector where pioneering companies like Cawleys helping to reduce the UK’s commercial food waste mountain.