Food Waste Recycling for Business
Food Waste Recycling for Business
Save money, improve your green credentials and reduce your carbon footprint.
Any business that offers catering services to the public or to employees will generate a large amount of food waste from food preparation, plate scrapings or unused, out-of-date food.
This food waste often ends up in waste bins that can potentially be hazardous, smelly and unpleasant. There are financial costs and environmental implications in the collection and removal of the waste and in most cases it ends up in landfill where it rots and emits harmful greenhouse gases.
Is it not time to break this unnatural, unnecessary cycle?
Clean up and Green up
It is time for all of us to take more responsibility, whether it is for the sake of our customers, employees or the environment as a whole.
Would you like to show your shareholders, customers and employees you care about the environment?
Would you like to show that your company is progressive and embracing the latest technologies?
Would you like to create a clean space around your premises, free of stinking bins?
The solution is an on-site food waste recycling machine.
Become part of a sustainable solution and increase your company’s green credentials as well as saving money.
On site food waste recycling
An on-site food waste recycling machine is a fantastic way to improve your business’s green credentials whilst saving you money on your waste collection and disposal bills. A Ridan Pro 400 composter is quick and simple to use and will recycle all of your food waste into nutritious compost.
Composting is the decomposition of biodegradable organic matter including cooked and raw food waste. Kitchen waste and plate scrapings can all be composted, as can garden waste such as grass clippings and dead leaves. The key thing to remember is that if it once lived, then it can be composted.
When the conditions in the Ridan Pro composting machine are right, microscopic organisms respire and breakdown the matter to produce nutrient rich compost.
How do I use a Ridan food waste composter?
The purpose of the Ridan Pro composter is to aid and enhance the natural process of composting. The Ridan Pro creates an environment that is just right for the composting process to occur. All you have to do is make sure you add the right balance of mixture and give the handle a few turns every day to introduce oxygen to the mix.
What can be composted?
You can compost all food waste (foods past their sell by date, cuttings, peelings, and plate scrapings) and all garden waste (grass clippings, weeds, cuttings, and horse manure). These green waste products are all nitrogen rich, so you need to balance this out with carbon rich products.
The only carbon source which really works well is wood, as either wood chip, sawdust, wood shavings or wood pellets. These must be added to the composter every time that food waste is added to maintain the right balance.
How do I get the balance of green and brown waste right?
The composting process happens naturally within the Ridan when the balance of green to brown product is correct, a safe bet is half and half which is a safe way to get started, however over time you can adjust this to suit your waste type.
What comes out?
The food waste mixture passes through the Ridan in about two weeks, emerging automatically as the handle is turned but at this stage it hasn’t yet become compost.
The mixture is then placed into one of the Maturation boxes where it continues to compost, improving every day. The compost can be ready to use in as little as 12 weeks, but more time always improves it.
The resulting compost will be rich, moist and full of nutrients produced by the composting micro-organisms, it is far richer than normal soil and a haven for any plant life.
Successful composting all depends on getting the right proportions of carbon and nitrogen rich materials.
Nitrogen comes from food waste and green waste, while carbon is supplied by wood.
Too much carbon can cause the materials to be too dry and not break down. Too much nitrogen tends to make the waste go rotten and smelly.
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