Manchester butchers waste collection covers some of the most varied meat trade in the North West. Halal butchers on Wilmslow Road and Stockport Road, independent family butchers in Chorlton and Didsbury, market traders in the city centre and cutting rooms on industrial estates all produce bones, fat and trim that are legally classed as animal […]
Kirkby Stephen Fallen Stock Collection Across the Upper Eden and Mallerstang
Kirkby Stephen fallen stock collection has to work around the realities of farming at the head of the Eden valley. Hill ground, long farm tracks, fell gates and roads that can close in a single winter night all shape how a dead ewe or suckler cow gets from the farm to a licensed plant. Martlands […]
Bolton Food Waste Collection for Restaurants, Caterers and Food Businesses
Bolton food waste collection has changed from a nice-to-have into a legal requirement for many businesses in the borough. Since Simpler Recycling came into force in England, most food businesses with ten or more full-time equivalent employees must keep food waste separate from general waste, and smaller firms follow from 31 March 2027. Martlands is […]
ABP Colour Coding – Labelling Animal By-Product Containers by Category
ABP colour coding is one of those rules that looks like a small detail until something goes wrong. A green bin full of bones in a butcher’s back room, a yellow-labelled skip on a farm and a black container of specified risk material at an abattoir each tell everyone who handles them, from the person […]
Ulverston Fallen Stock Collection Across Furness and Cartmel
Ulverston sits at the heart of Furness farming. The town’s auction mart draws dairy, beef and sheep from across Low Furness, the fells toward Coniston and the Cartmel peninsula, and the A590 links it all to the M6. Ulverston fallen stock collection needs to reach farms that range from productive lowland dairy units near Urswick […]
Calf Pneumonia Fallen Stock Collection – Handling Winter Calf Losses
Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of death in housed calves, and the losses cluster in late autumn and winter when calves are indoors, groups are mixed and the weather swings between mild and damp and hard frost. When a calf dies, calf pneumonia fallen stock collection needs to be quick, correctly documented […]
Manchester Food Waste Collection for Restaurants, Hotels and Food Producers
Manchester has one of the densest food economies in the country. Independent kitchens in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, bars and restaurants around Spinningfields and Deansgate, city centre hotels, university and hospital catering, and food manufacturers out at Trafford Park all produce food waste every day. Manchester food waste collection has to cope with that […]
Blackburn Fallen Stock Collection for Moorland and Valley Farms
Farming around Blackburn sits in a tight band between town and moor. Within a few miles of the ring road you can be on a hill farm above Tockholes, a suckler herd at Mellor or a sheep holding on the edge of Darwen Moor. Blackburn fallen stock collection has to work for all of them, […]
Christmas Butchers Waste Collection – Planning for the December Peak
For most independent butchers, December is the month that pays for the rest of the year, and it produces more waste than any other. Christmas butchers waste collection needs planning weeks before the first turkey order is boned out, because the bins fill faster, the chillers are already full of customer orders, and the bank […]
Business Closure Food Waste Collection – Clearing Stock Safely When a Food Business Closes
Business closure food waste collection is easy to overlook when a restaurant, cafe, butcher or food factory is closing, being refurbished or changing hands. Martlands is a family-run, DEFRA approved collector based in Burscough, Lancashire, and alongside our fallen stock and ABP collection work we regularly help food businesses clear chillers, freezers and stores at […]