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 […]
Lancaster Butchers Waste Collection for Shops, Farm Butcheries and Game Dealers
Martlands provides Lancaster butchers waste collection for high street butchers, farm shop cutting rooms and game dealers across Lancaster, Morecambe, Carnforth and the Lune valley. We are a family-run, DEFRA approved collector based in Burscough, and our fallen stock and ABP collection work across Lancashire means we understand how meat moves from local farms to […]
Meat Waste Collection for Cutting Plants, Wholesalers and Food Manufacturers
Behind every meat counter, catering supplier and ready-meal line there is a steady stream of trim, fat, bone and rejected product. For meat wholesalers, cutting plants, catering butchers and food manufacturers, meat waste collection is not an occasional job but part of daily production, and it carries legal obligations that general waste contractors cannot meet. […]
Housed Poultry Fallen Stock Collection Through the Avian Influenza Season
When the autumn migration brings wild waterfowl back to the estuaries and mosses of the North West, the risk of avian influenza rises and many flocks spend weeks or months indoors. Housed poultry fallen stock collection then becomes part of the daily routine on broiler, layer and free-range units, and it has to be handled […]
Liverpool Butchers Waste Collection for Shops, Markets and Cutting Rooms
Liverpool butchers waste collection has to work for a very mixed trade. A family butcher on Allerton Road, a halal shop in Kensington or Wavertree, a stall serving Saturday shoppers and a cutting room on an industrial estate in Speke all produce bones, fat and trim every day, and all of it is an animal […]
Fallen Stock Incinerator or Licensed Collection – What Farmers Should Weigh Up
A fallen stock incinerator can look like an appealing answer to the problem of dead animals on farm. Burn the carcass on site, avoid waiting for a lorry, and keep control of the whole process. For some units, particularly poultry and pig farms with steady daily mortality, an approved on-farm incinerator can be a legitimate […]
Product Recall ABP Collection for Withdrawn and Out of Specification Stock
A product recall is an expensive, fast-moving event, and the disposal of the recovered stock is the part most often improvised. Product recall ABP collection is the licensed route by which withdrawn food containing material of animal origin leaves a business, and doing it properly is what allows a manufacturer to demonstrate to a retailer, […]
Dairy Processing ABP Collection for Creameries and Cheese Makers
Dairy processing sits inside the animal by-products framework in a way that surprises many producers, because milk is material of animal origin and the residues of processing it are regulated accordingly. Dairy processing ABP collection covers out-of-specification milk, failed batches, whey solids where they cannot be used, rejected packaged product and the material recovered from […]
Casualty Slaughter Fallen Stock Collection and the By-Products That Follow
Few areas of on-farm decision making are as poorly understood as the point at which an injured animal stops being a candidate for the food chain and becomes fallen stock. Casualty slaughter fallen stock collection sits directly on that line, and getting the decision wrong costs either the value of the carcass or a serious […]