Bakery food waste - it's a gas
Waste management company F & R Cawley has partnered with renewable energy business Bedfordia Biogas to divert over 30,000t of food waste a year into biogas energy generation plant.
The new biogas system has now helped traditional craft bakery Oliver Adams to reduce the amount of its food waste going to landfill.
Based in Northampton, Oliver Adams approached F & R Cawley for help to make the company as environmentally friendly as possible. It has now implemented a system at each of its 29 shops in which all the waste is segregated into colour-coded sealed bags and brought back to the bakery.
The plastics and cardboard are baled, collected and then taken for recycling. The food waste is emptied into a specially sealed food skip, then taken weekly to the Biogas plant for disposal.
Thomas Adams, md of Olive Adams, said: "We realized that there was a good business reason to minimize our waste disposal costs by recycling." The company has reduced the amount of waste going to landfill by over 70%.
CONTACT F & R Cawley TEL 0845 260 2000
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