Food Waste Recycling
Comprehensive Food Waste Recycling Services in and around Bournemouth, Dorset, South West of England.
What is Food Waste Recycling?
Food waste recycling involves collecting and processing organic food materials—such as uneaten food, peelings, and expired products—to create valuable resources like compost or energy, thereby reducing landfill usage and environmental impact. Some of the key benefits of food waste recycling are:
- Environmental Conservation: Reduces methane emissions from landfills, a potent greenhouse gas.
- Resource Recovery: Transforms waste into useful products like compost or biogas.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensures adherence to environmental regulations and demonstrates corporate social responsibility.
What we do?
We provide tailored food waste recycling services designed to meet the unique needs of businesses, ensuring safe, reliable, and legal disposal with minimal disruption. By choosing Hurn Recycling, we will provide you with:
- Compliance: Adherence to all local and national waste management regulations.
- Flexibility: Customised collection schedules to suit your operational needs.
- Sustainability: Commitment to reducing landfill usage by promoting recycling and responsible waste disposal.
General Waste Collection and Disposal Bin Sizes
We offer flexible collection schedules, including daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly pickups, based on your business requirements. We cater for businesses of all sizes and offer the following range of bin sizes for general waste collection:
- 240 Litre Food waste bin
We provide 240-litre food waste recycling bins; upon collection, we replace the bin liner and use a sanitiser to freshen each food waste recycling bin.
What can be disposed of in Food Waste Bins?
All uneaten food and plate scrapings
Meat and fish
Cooked or raw
Cooked foods
e.g., rice, pasta, vegetables, and ready meals
Baked goods
e.g., bread, cakes, and pastries
Fruits and vegetables
Including raw and cooked vegetables and peelings.
All dairy products
Tea bags and coffee grounds
What cannot be disposed of in Food Waste Bins?
Liquids
These may cause leaks and spillages during transportation.
Non-food products
Packaging of any kind
Large animal parts
Medical waste
Areas we cover
Our recycling centres are based in Bournemouth & Exeter. However, we offer recycling waste management and waste collection across Dorset & Devon alongside other surrounding counties such as Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Specifically in the following areas:
Dorset
BH Postcodes - Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Wimborne, Ferndown, Wareham, Swanage, Bridport, Lyme Regis, Blandford Forum, Verwood, Ringwood
DT Postcodes - Dorchester, Weymouth, Portland, Bridport, Lyme Regis, Blandford Forum
Devon
EX Postcodes – Covers Exeter (city), Broadclyst, Clyst St Mary, Silverton, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Ottery St Mary, Seaton, Axminster, Honiton, Colyton
Hampshire
SO Postcodes – Totton, Lymington, Brockenhurst, Lyndhurst, Hythe
SP Postcodes – Fordingbridge (SP6)
Wiltshire
SP1 & SP2 Postcodes – Covers Salisbury
How Food Waste is Recycled?
Food waste can be recycled in a number of ways. It can be composted, which is a process of breaking down organic matter into a nutrient-rich soil amendment. It can be anaerobically digested, which is a process of breaking down organic matter in the absence of oxygen to produce methane gas, which can then be used to generate electricity.
- Anaerobic Digestion: Food waste is broken down by microorganisms in the absence of oxygen, producing biogas (used for energy) and digestate (used as a fertilizer).
- In-Vessel Composting: Food waste is mixed with garden waste and composted in an enclosed system, resulting in high-quality compost used for agriculture and landscaping.
Food Waste Recycling in the UK and Worldwide
The United Nations estimates that a third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted each year, totalling 1.3 billion tons. That's enough to feed the world's hungry many times over. And it's not just a developing world problem. In the UK 4.5 million tonnes of food are thrown away by households annually.
The good news is that there are many ways to reduce food waste, and recycling is one of them.
New UK Food Waste Recycling Legislation
The UK is a global leader in tackling food waste, with the government pledging to reduce food waste by 20% by 2025, total food waste levels falling by 480,000 tonnes between 2015 and 2018 and the Environment Bill committing to eliminating food waste from landfill by 2030.
The UK government has confirmed that the new legislation will introduce a clear set of recyclable materials for both household and commercial waste, including the separation of dry and organic waste collections.
It is likely that companies producing over a set threshold of food waste will be required to recycle it, similar to the legislation currently in place in Scotland and that fines will be served to those who don’t comply.
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Commercial Recycling and waste management in Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset. Serving the surrounding counties. Helping Businesses save money and reduce landfill since 1995.
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- Bournemouth
Hurn Recycling Ltd, 452 Bournemouth International Airport, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 6NW
- 01202 257530
- Exeter
Hurn Recycling Ltd, Greendale Business Park, Compound 67, Honey Lane, Woodbury Salterton, Exeter, EX5 1EW
- 01392 323316