The East Midlands’ leading resource management and recycling company has been awarded a 24-month waste management contract with one of the world’s leading meat-free food manufacturers – Quorn Foods.
Wastecycle, which works with over 3,000 businesses throughout the UK, will provide its services across Quorn’s Norfolk, North Yorkshire and County Durham sites, aiming to help make the company’s waste and recycling processes more efficient and cost effective.
Paul Clements, Commercial Director at Wastecycle, said: “Quorn is an internationally recognised household brand, so we’re all thrilled about being selected to help them become more environmentally-friendly and efficient when it comes to the waste they produce. Just like any food manufacturer, Quorn generates a wide variety of waste, but we’re confident that, together, we can implement a strategy to help Quorn achieve zero waste to landfill.
“Our plan for working with Quorn includes implementing the waste hierarchy to minimise the amount of waste generated, in addition to increasing the segregation of its dry mixed recycling (DMR) and finding new, more competitive outlets for commodities.”
The contract, which started at the beginning of November 2015, sees Wastecycle handle Quorn’s food, cardboard, plastic, wooden packaging and general waste, along with using 30,000 litre tankers for the collection and treatment of effluent waste and used cooking oil. In addition to the tankers, Wastecycle will also provide two portable, 32-yard compactors, three large balers and an artic trailer for easy disposal and transport of cardboard and plastic waste.
Paul continued: “As part of what we’re doing, we’re planning to convert the 75,000 litres of used cooking oil that Quorn produces each year into an environmentally friendly bio liquid that can be used to generate carbon neutral electricity for the UK. “Additionally, due to Quorn’s food waste containing no animal by-products and its nutritious value, we plan to segregate and process it for use as high quality animal feed”.
Louise Needham, Environment & Sustainability Manager a Quorn said : “Environmental sustainability belongs at the core of the Quorn Foods business due to the nature of Quorn products as being a sustainable protein. We take seriously our continued responsibility to reduce and carefully manage waste at all points of the supply chain. The move to a circular economy is a vital one and we are pleased to be working with Wastecycle to move towards this”.
For more information on Quorn visit www.quorn.co.uk
