Food waste,separated and gone.

For most businesses in England, yes. Since 31 March 2025, workplaces with 10 or more full time equivalent employees have had to separate food waste from general waste under the Simpler Recycling rules. Businesses below that threshold come into scope on 31 March 2027. There are limited exemptions, so check your own position, but for kitchens, restaurants, canteens and care settings the answer is almost always yes.

Anything from daily to weekly. Food waste is the wettest and most attractive material in a bin store, so getting the frequency right matters more here than on any other stream. Busy kitchens usually run several collections a week, lighter offices weekly.

Sealed kitchen caddies for back of house, larger lidded external bins for the bin store, and liners if you want them. We look at what you actually produce and size it accordingly, rather than dropping a standard package on site.

Usually less overall. Food waste is heavy and wet, and pulling it out of general waste shrinks your most expensive container. A lot of sites end up moving to a smaller general waste bin or a lower frequency after the switch, which offsets the cost of the food stream.

It goes to anaerobic digestion, where it is processed into biogas for renewable energy and a digestate used as fertiliser. That is what keeps it out of landfill and what gives you a diversion figure to report.

It is the single biggest improvement most commercial bin stores can make. In a general waste bin, food sits until the next general collection. In a sealed caddy on a short cycle it is contained and gone, which removes the thing that attracts rats, flies and gulls in the first place.

Yes. Waste transfer documentation is kept on file and produced on request. Environmental health officers and client auditors ask for it, and the usual failure is not that it does not exist but that nobody on site can find it.