Creative Foods is part of the global food provider OSI group, and produces sauces and dressings used with major food companies, as well as chilled sandwich fillings, deli salads and dips.
Willshee’s said the move, which will aim to reduce Creative Foods’ emissions at its Burton site by 20% by 2025, will include creating fuel from the company’s food waste. This will be sent to two Bioganix sites – Nottingham and Bondby.
Both companies are based in Burton-on-Trent. Creative Foods moved to the area in 2020, taking over a site previously owned by Kerry Foods.
Creative Foods’ Burton site covers 230,000 square foot and employs over 350 staff.
Service
Willshee’s explained that food waste is one of the several different waste streams created by the company’s production processes. It said that the service it provides includes a metal drum crusher, a DAF skip, liquid food waste tanks, general waste compactors as well as solid food waste disposal.
Commenting on the partnership, Creative Foods’ continuous improvement manager, Emma Devitt said: “Willshee’s is helping us with a variety of progressive waste programmes, including turning our food waste into fuel, to ensure that we are dealing with our refuse in the most responsible way possible.”
Willshee’s managing director Dean Willshee added: “It was great to see Creative Foods come to Burton and we are incredibly proud to be working with this global business. More and more of our customers are adapting best practice around zero waste to landfill and reducing their carbon footprint. Creative Foods’ use of our food waste services is particularly significant as it means that all of its food waste now goes to an anaerobic digestion plant to create fuel. It’s all about reduce, reuse, repair and recover.”
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