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What solutions are available to help me comply?
Here at Tidy Planet, we know all about food waste as we’ve been working in the sector for over 20 years. We work with hundreds of organisations – including many hotels, restaurants, corporate facilities and hospitals, schools, and universities – helping them close the waste management loop both efficiently and compliantly.
Given companies will have to separate their food waste stream and are no longer allowed send this material to sewer, landfill, or be incinerated, decision-makers can either use specialist drying or dewatering equipment to help them reduce the amount of food waste they send off site, and they can then use their own composting system to recycle it on site.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the three options...
1) Food waste dewatering equipment
Dewatering machinery works by first shredding the food waste, removing the moisture content, and separating the liquid from the solid waste. This process helps sites reduce the volume of their organic waste by up to 80% and its weight by 50%. And, as a result, this means that they can benefit from significantly lowering their off-site collection and disposal costs – which also helps decrease transport-related carbon emissions.
Food waste, by its very nature, contains high levels of moisture, and this means that it’s extremely heavy and this can quickly inflate third-party collection and disposal fees. Under the new laws it will be permitted to dry or deliquefy the waste before collection and thankfully – unlike disposers and digesters – drying and dewatering systems will be allowed to be used.
Choosing this method would ensure compliance and help to decrease the amount of food waste being collected.
Dewatered food waste
Dehydra Dewaterer
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What solutions are available to help me comply?