Eco Food Recycling have pioneered a commercial food waste collection service in the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Ringwood and Wimborne area’s that will 100% recycle your food waste and offers a zero landfill solution for your company and business.Although the business is predominantly collecting food waste in the Dorset area we also have commercial food waste collection rounds set up in Hampshire,Wiltshire,Berkshire,Surrey and Sussex.
All commercial food waste, when collected, will be taken to an Invessel Composting facility (EU Category 3) and is processed in the following way.
The material is first of all shredded through a 12mm screen and then put in to sealed units (clamps), where it is left for 10 – 12 days to heat up to a minimum of 70c for at least 1 hour to sterilise. The temperatures are automatically monitored and recorded during this period. Once the batch has reached the required standard and is sampled and analysed, it is moved outside for maturation for a further 12 – 14 weeks.
After this, the nutrient rich compost is screened (with any plastic residue separated) and used on our turf fields to replenish the soil harvested during the turf process, thereby allowing us to grow sustainable and nutrient rich turf.
In the near future as well as using this facility Eco Food Recycling will also take commercial food waste that is collected from Schools, Colleges and Universities, Hotels, Restaurants and Pubs along with large corporate company canteens to a new Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant that is currently under construction in West Dorset.
The multi-million pound biogas plant will turn organic commercial food waste into energy. The new plant will have the annual capacity to turn 25,000 tonnes of commercial food waste into methane gas. The gas will be used to generate up to 700KW of electricity for supply to the national grid. The solid and liquid waste, both end products of the process, will be used as fertiliser and soil improver on local farms.
We are registered with the Environment Agency as a Carrier/Broker of waste but will be specialising in the commercial food waste sector of the industry.
Our commitment to the environment is emphasised by supplying top quality bio-degradeable bags that will be used in the kitchen/food waste area before being placed in the Eco Food Recycling bins that we empty on a regular basis.
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We are regulated by DEFRA (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) and we have a Duty of Care when we collect commercial food waste, transport it, and dispose of the waste.
Environment Agency Registration No: CB/CP 3791 MD
