Cleanaway has launched a packaged food waste recycling service at 32 full-service petrol stations in South Australia.
Service stations provide food for convenience and people who need a meal while on the move. These foods are often wrapped in plastic or other packaging that may be difficult to remove, resulting in unsold, expired or unsaleable products being sent to landfill.
Our packaged food waste recycling service is a gamechanger for food retailers and commercial kitchens that would have previously disposed of unusable food in the general waste bin which could mean a more expensive service.
Our service uses a food depackaging unit to separate organic material from a variety of packaging including plastic, bottles, cardboard and cans. Packaged food and liquid are first loaded into an intake hopper, before a combination of mechanical and centrifugal forces separate and force the materials through a mesh screen, leaving two waste streams – organic and packaging.
Once separated, the organic material can be used as compost, animal feed or even turned into electricity through anaerobic digestion. Separated packaging can be sent for recycling, further reducing waste and potentially generating additional revenue streams.
Pictured: A close-up look of a food depackaging unit
The rollout of our packaged organics recycling service in South Australia follows the recent launch of our food depackaging facility in Queensland and our state-of-the-art South East Organics Facility in Victoria.
In Australia, over 5 million tonnes of food end up in landfill each year. Cleanaway offers an industry-leading organics recovery service using state-of-the-art technology and facilities to recover resources from organic waste. Speak to us for a service, including a secure product destruction service that protects your brand name and confidentiality.
Contact us today to learn more about this exciting new offering.