Britain’s restaurants throw away more than 600,000 tons of food a year as a fault of serving sizes and poor kitchen preparation. This wastefulness can make a real dent in the owner’s pockets. One way to recuperate costs at the same time as reducing recycling costs is through the brand new app “Too Good To Go“.
Too Good To Be True? How It Works
Too good to go is an online app which allows businesses to sell back food perfectly edible food they would otherwise throw out at the end of the day. Something as simple as a loaf of fresh bread to some meat leftover from a carvery. The benefits appear outright, giving your food business new customers, less waste and recovering costs from the unpurchased food. Businesses can sign up to be partnered up via the main website. While it appears while businesses get a proportion of the costs back; similar to JustEat, there is a fee in place paid back to the app.
Food Business Waste – An Alternative Solution
Some food can’t be sold back to the customer, and for that, food waste recycling is critical. Maybe it’s ruined during the preparation phase; it could have gone off if left unchecked or the most reasonable explanation. The leftovers aren’t fit to be sold back through the app.
When it comes to recycling food waste, there are two common types of recycling, both being very beneficial to the environment and much better than only going to the landfill.
In-vessel composting: This mixes food waste with garden waste, where it gets composted for 2-4 weeks in an enclosed system. The temperature in this enclosure is around 70˚C to speed up the composting process as well as kill harmful microbes. After this, the new material is left to mature before becoming used as a soil conditioner. The benefit of soil conditioner is that it helps make plants more fertile, helping gardeners, farmers and even home-owners grow food more successfully.
Anaerobic Digestion (AD): This process uses microorganisms to break down the food waste. This process also uses an enclosed system, where there is an absence of oxygen to aid in breaking down the food waste. The result is methane which collected and generated into biogas; alternative electricity that helps to generate power to homes and businesses like yours.
Food waste and recycling management
Not everything can be too good to go, and when that happens, you’ll need an expert food recycling service in place. We at Direct365 specialise in all things waste management and that includes the food you need binning. Don’t think that food should go into the general waste bin either; landfill sites face increasing costs, which could cost you a lot more than recycling would do in the long run.
Whether you’re a hotel, pun, catering service or restaurant, most companies produce food waste of some sort, and we’re able to suit the volume and size of your business accordingly.
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