Category: Food Waste

Opening a food business involves a hundred decisions, and waste is almost always made last. New premises food waste collection is nonetheless one of the few things a local authority will ask about at the first inspection, which frequently comes within weeks of opening. Getting it in place before the doors open costs an hour. […]

Staff restaurants, factory canteens, hospital retail units and contract catering operations sit in an awkward gap. They are food businesses producing regulated waste, but the waste arrangements are frequently inherited from the host site’s facilities contract rather than designed for catering. Workplace catering food waste collection is therefore one of the areas where a well-run […]

Fish waste is one of the most misunderstood materials in the animal by-products framework, and fishmonger food waste collection is a service that many independent retailers and market traders assume they do not need. They do. Heads, frames, guts, skin and shell are animal by-products, they cannot lawfully be placed in a general commercial waste […]

Delivery-only kitchens have changed the shape of food service in every North West town centre, and dark kitchen food waste collection has not kept pace with them. A unit with no dining room, no shop front and often no visible signage still produces exactly the same regulated waste as a restaurant of the same output, […]

The North West has more independent breweries and small distilleries than at any point in living memory, and brewery food waste collection is one of the compliance areas those businesses most often discover late. Spent grain, spent hops, trub, yeast slurry, out-of-date packaged product and taproom kitchen waste are not one waste stream but several, […]

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 […]