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Healthcare
NHS Grampian – Dewatering equipment
The nutritional requirements of thousands of patients are a challenge for NHS Grampian.
When mealtimes are over, the items come back to the kitchen to be dealt with by the staff.
Workers manually separated the inedibles, napkins, and leftover food – scraping the latter into a trough disposer while a rinse hose quickly removed the heavier, stickier foods. This waste was then shredded into fine particles and flushed into the main sewer system.
With the changes to the law, this disposer to sewer method would no longer be permitted - they needed a solution that would fit within their seamless operation.
Tidy Planet not only refurbished the hospitals’ food waste disposers, but we worked together with the site in devising the optimum design layouts and installing an additional under counter food waste dewatering system to the tin wash scraping tables.
NHS Grampian
