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 […]
Blackpool Food Waste Collection for Resort Hotels, Chippies and Caterers
Martlands provides Blackpool food waste collection for hotels, guesthouses, fish and chip shops, bars, cafes and event caterers along the promenade and across the Fylde coast. We are a family-run, DEFRA approved collector based in Burscough, Lancashire, and alongside our fallen stock and ABP collection work we collect food waste from businesses of every size […]
North Wales Food Waste Collection for Hospitality and Food Producers
Martlands provides North Wales food waste collection for hotels, restaurants, caravan parks, cafes and food manufacturers from the Dee estuary to the Conwy valley. As a family-run, DEFRA approved collector based in Burscough, Lancashire, we already run fallen stock and ABP collection across the region, and food waste from kitchens and production lines is handled […]
Lancaster Food Waste Collection for Cafes, Caterers and Food Businesses
From the cafes around Market Square and the student kitchens at Bailrigg to the seafront along Morecambe promenade, Lancaster food waste collection has to work for a wide mix of businesses. Since Simpler Recycling came into force, most of them are now legally required to keep food waste separate. Martlands is a family-run, DEFRA approved […]
Chester Food Waste Collection for Restaurants, Hotels and Visitor Venues
Chester food waste collection is shaped by the city itself. Medieval Rows above street level, a walled centre with tight access, a racecourse on the edge of the city that can bring huge crowds on race days, and a steady flow of visitors to the zoo and the outlet village all mean that food businesses […]
Warrington Food Waste Collection for Hospitality, Caterers and Distribution Sites
Warrington food waste collection has become a compliance question rather than a nice extra. Since 31 March 2025, businesses in England with ten or more full-time equivalent employees have had to separate food waste from their general waste under Simpler Recycling, and Warrington has more of those businesses than most towns its size. Martlands is […]
New Premises Food Waste Collection and Getting Compliance Right From Day One
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. […]
Workplace Catering Food Waste Collection for Staff Canteens and Contract Sites
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 […]
Fishmonger Food Waste Collection and Compliant Handling of Fish By-Products
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 […]
Dark Kitchen Food Waste Collection for Delivery Only Food Businesses
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, […]