Food Waste Management Sittingbourne

Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that our experienced team will take care of everything to do with your food waste management in Sittingbourne and surrounding areas. We’ll give you a customized service to meet your company’s recycling requirements, no matter how large or little they are.

Our account managers will work relentlessly to guarantee that you are completely satisfied at all times. Make your food waste management in Sittingbourne more environmentally friendly! We will work with you to protect our environment every step of the way. Just give us a call on 01795 250 370 or fill in  the form for a free quote. Well also provide you with free bins, free waste transfer audit and do a waste audit for you should you need it.

Managing Food Waste Sittingbourne

To better manage food waste, we have to first understand what it is and how it is generated. Food waste, in some cases, is inevitable. For example, egg shells, vegetable peels, tea bags etc are the type of food waste that we just can’t help but produce. So, food waste is any discarded food material that is no longer of use.  The leftover food or food scraps are not the problem. The problem is what we do with it.

Food waste, in fact, accounts for 19 percent of all landfill area, making it the single-largest category of garbage. Although food decomposes naturally, the massive amounts of methane gas produced by this decomposing waste food are little consolation. Methane is two times deadlier to the atmosphere compared to carbon dioxide and food waste is the single largest producer of it. It is for this reason why proper food waste management strategies should be implemented to prevent adverse consequences. The best way to do this is through recycling the food waste.

Recycling Food Waste Process

Recycling in general is a dynamic process that recovers a material’s life cycle. Three chasing arrows make up the popular recycling symbol. Each arrow symbolizes one of the three steps in the recycling loop’s three-step procedure. The first step is to collect material. 

The processing and commercialization of recycled materials is the second phase. After that, the materials are separated according to their types and processed further.

Manufacturing is the final phase. The recyclables are repurposed as consumer goods and transformed into new products. This is just the basic recycling process. 

Food waste recycling is one of the ways we can see the reduction of food waste from our businesses and landfills. The process of recycling food is called anaerobic digestion. At the recycling plants after collection from your premises and transportation to recycling plants, a closed system leaves food waste to be broken down by microorganisms without oxygen. Biogas, which supplies electricity, is produced from the methane released during decomposition. The manure produced by this procedure is also beneficial to soil regeneration and can be used as a fertilizer. In short, this is the anaerobic digestion:

• Food waste is brought to the anaerobic digestion plant and deposited in a sealed reception area.

• After that, the food waste is crushed up and pumped into heated digester tanks.

• The methane produced in the tanks is used to generate electricity, which is then distributed to homes and businesses via the National Grid.

• The nitrogen-rich liquid that remains at the end of the operation is pasteurized and utilized as fertilizer on farms.