The company already offers a food waste processing service to major supermarkets and hospitality providers in the UK. The Food Waste Recycling Scheme is now expanding so it can offer services to businesses of all sizes.
Being in the scheme will mean that catering and hospitality businesses of all sizes can assure their customers that they're part of a national effort to make these industries sustainable.
Suzanne McDermott, PDM Group Regional Manager
The service includes food waste recycling and cooking oil collection and processing. It also includes access to PDM Group's Oilsense system, a method for changing and storing warm cooking oil safely.
PDM Group Regional Manager, Suzanne McDermott, said: “All of the food waste collected as part of the scheme will be processed at our plants and turned into renewable energy which will be fed back into the National Grid.
“Being in the scheme will mean that catering and hospitality businesses of all sizes can assure their customers that they're part of a national effort to make these industries sustainable.”
She explained that the scheme will roll-out in the north-west region of the UK and branch out gradually. PDM Group will be launching the scheme at the RWM Show at the NEC in September.
Anaerobic digestion
The announcement of the Food Waste Recycling Scheme comes weeks after PDM Group released plans to develop their sites in the UK to include anaerobic digestion (AD) plants and news that the company is to expand its CHP site in Widnes.
The AD plants will operate alongside existing food waste processing facilities (see letsrecycle.com story). PDM Group said: “[They] are part of a longer-term plan to process all forms of food waste in the most sustainable way possible.”
The CHP expansion at Widnes will more than double the site's renewable energy generation. The site already powers more that 25,000 homes in the north-west.
PDM Group currently processes and collects more than one million tonnes of food waste each year.
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