Category: Food Waste

A stadium spends most of the week as an empty building and a few hours a fortnight as a small town, and its waste arrangements have to cope with both. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial food waste services across the North West, and stadium food waste collection is one of […]

The modern garden centre is a hospitality and retail business that also sells plants, and its waste profile reflects that far more than its name suggests. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial waste services across the North West from a base at Burscough, and garden centre food waste collection covers a […]

Hotels generate food waste in a pattern that no other hospitality business shares, with a heavy fixed load every morning and an entirely unpredictable one every evening. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial waste services across the North West, and hotel food waste collection has to be sized for the busy […]

Takeaways occupy an awkward position in the commercial waste world. They are usually small businesses on high streets, frequently operating from premises with almost no external space, and they generate a waste stream that is disproportionate to their floor area. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial waste services from a base […]

School kitchens come back to life in the first week of September after six weeks of near silence, and the waste arrangements that were switched off in July have to be switched back on before the first service rather than after it. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial waste services across […]

A university campus is one of the more complicated food waste producers a licensed collector deals with, because it is not one kitchen but a dozen operations with different opening patterns sharing a single site and a single reputation. Martlands provides licensed fallen stock and ABP collection and commercial food waste services across the North […]

Summer fly control for food waste storage is one of the most practical hygiene challenges any food business or farm faces in the warm months, and it is easy to underestimate until a by-product store becomes a buzzing, malodorous problem. Flies are drawn powerfully to food waste and animal by-products, they breed astonishingly fast in […]

Farmers market food waste collection comes into its own through the summer, when the region’s markets, artisan food fairs and street food gatherings draw their biggest crowds and their busiest trade. Across the North West, from established farmers markets in the market towns to pop-up street food events in the cities, summer is peak season […]

Event food waste collection is one of the least glamorous but most important parts of running a summer festival, food fair or outdoor occasion, and across the North West the warm months are packed with exactly these gatherings. From music festivals and food and drink fairs to county fetes, sporting events and charity galas, summer […]

Wedding venue food waste collection is a summer-defining task for the country houses, barns, marquees and hotels that host the bulk of their celebrations between May and September. A single large wedding can generate a remarkable quantity of food waste in one evening, and a venue running several events a week through the season needs […]