Commercial Food Waste Management Services
Reducing food waste isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for business. Waste Mission’s food waste management services help companies cut costs, stay compliant, and reduce their carbon footprint. Our team handles food waste collection, recycling, and disposal nationwide. Every collection is traceable in our customer portal and commodity driven.
Our Food Waste Management Process
We provide reliable, nationwide food waste collection services for manufacturers. Our approach is practical and transparent, with a clear chain of custody and full compliance with UK waste regulations. We support separate food waste collections in line with new legislation and create a collection schedule that fits your site.
Food Waste Collection
We supply food waste bins and containers suited to your space. Our drivers collect food waste safely and efficiently, using sealed containers to prevent spills and odours. Each collection is recorded in your portal for full traceability and instant access to service and compliance records.
Food Waste Recycling
Collected food waste is sent for composting or anaerobic digestion, where micro-organisms break down organic materials to create renewable energy and nutrient-rich compost or digestate. By separating food waste from general waste, businesses reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions, lower disposal costs, and cut their overall carbon footprint.
Food Waste Disposal
Where food waste cannot be recycled, we handle disposal safely and in full compliance with UK waste regulations. All supporting documents are stored in your customer portal, helping your business stay organised, simplify audits, and prepare confidently for environmental and compliance checks.
Powering Change Through Food Waste
A commercial food waste management company should help companies with more than just removing bins. With the right advice and processes for separating food waste at source, it can be transformed into valuable resources through composting, animal feed production, and anaerobic digestion. These methods recover nutrients, generate renewable energy, and enrich soil while reducing general waste, landfill tax, and overall environmental impact.
Types of Food Waste We Process
We handle a broad range of food waste, including uneaten food, preparation scraps, vegetables, meat, tea bags, coffee grounds, bakery items, dairy products, and expired stock. We also handle organic by-products from production, ensuring safe, hygienic, and fully compliant food waste management for every type of business.
How Our Food Waste Recycling Works
We help you make the most from your organic waste through our expert knowledge of food waste recycling and reuse. Our team works with you to identify innovative solutions that recover value from organic materials, turning them into usable resources while keeping your waste streams cleaner and easier to manage.
Compliance Made Simple
Separate food waste collection is becoming a legal requirement for most businesses. We help you remain compliant with simpler recycling, clear signage, and documented processes. Our dedicated customer service team keeps your collections on track and your records ready for audits and customer requests.
Why Partner with Waste Mission for Food Waste?
Food manufacturers face unique pressures: high-volume perishable waste, strict hygiene standards, and the complex challenge of contaminated packaging we provide innovative and reliable solutions.
We move beyond generic recycling to implement customised segregation protocols for challenging organics (including meat/fish juice residue and spoiled products). This ensures your materials are diverted from landfill to Anaerobic Digestion (AD) or composting, guaranteeing verifiable zero-waste status. Our expert logistics ensure compliance and turn a major environmental liability into a clear sustainability advantage.
Measurable Results
Businesses using our commercial food waste collection see lower overall waste weights, more efficient collections, and reliable data for ESG reporting. Sites benefit from cleaner sorting areas, reduced contamination, and better environmental outcomes. Our bespoke customer portal reports show tonnages, disposal routes, and carbon savings in one place.
The Road to Zero Food Waste for IPN
Inspired Pet Nutrition (IPN) approached Waste Mission with a bold sustainability vision: becoming the nation’s most sustainable pet nutrition brand, which required eliminating all food waste to landfill. We achieved this by engineering bespoke solutions for their most challenging organics, including meat and fish juice-impacted packaging and raw meat waste.
Our strategic overhaul included a 24-hour SLA to prevent disruptions and ensure total compliance. Within six months, IPN achieved 100% diversion from landfill, setting a benchmark for the food industry and proving that ethical waste management is fully achievable at an industrial scale.
Ready to Rethink Your Food Waste?
Book a waste review to set up compliant food waste collection and improve your site’s waste performance.
Sustainability and waste reduction are crucial for our People, Pets and Planet approach to ESG. Partnering with Waste Mission reflects our dedication to creating happiness for our pets, their owners and the supply chain.
James Lawson | INSPIRED
FAQs
Is separate food waste collection a legal requirement?
The Simpler recycling legislation requires the separate collection of commercial food waste in most sectors. We set up collection schedules and processes with the correct food waste bin sizes, compliant signage, and a collection schedule that matches your volumes so you can be confident about your compliance.
What size food waste bins do I need?
We provide a range of food waste bins and containers from small internal caddies to large external bins. We match sizes to your site after a waste audit so you have capacity where you generate food waste.
Will collections cause bad smells or pests?
No. We use sealed containers, frequent collections, and clear cleaning routines to keep odours down. Segregating food waste reduces contamination in general waste, which also helps control smells.
Can you service multiple sites across the UK?
Yes. We manage single and multi-site businesses with one point of contact. Your portal gives you national and site-level data, with collection calendars and documents ready for download.