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On site food and green waste treatment systemsAt this moment in time, the UK is sending a huge amount of organic wastes to landfill, be it food waste, green garden waste or animal waste. The EU has set targets for diversion of this waste to be completed by 2010. There are huge fines set by the EU, to encourage our councils to curb this harmful practice.
Until this point, charges will continue to increase to transport and dispose of our wastes in the traditional methods, as the councils increase the taxes the waste carriers pay. For organic wastes there are minimal alternatives, incineration or Composting, and composting is the only environmentally friendly one of these.
Rocket® In vessel Composting is a solution for small scale industrial or commercial applications, anyone who produces between 50 litres and 7000 litres of food waste, or of a mix of food waste and garden waste. The use of our technology, the Rocket® Composter, means that these applications do have an alternative, an alternative to paying the rising disposal charges, and an alternative to the harmful methods of burying or incinerating their wastes.
The Rocket® Composter can be used on site , to treat these wastes , with the end product – compost , to be re used on site , or if there are no grounds , to be found a home with an appreciative end market.
The Rocket® In-Vessel Composter – The solution to food waste disposal.
In 1998 the first prototype Rocket® In Vessel Composter (IVC) was made, designed to reduce the space required to compost a vast amount of green waste, generated on a small holding owned by the inventor.
In 2001 the final prototype was made. This coincided with the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, which was rumoured to have been started by uncontrolled composting of food waste. This gave the inventor and designers a new purpose for the Rocket®, and thus bringing a new take on how we could dispose of food waste.
Working with DEFRA, the Rocket® was deigned to be compliant with the proposed regulations, brought about following the outbreak of foot and mouth, the Animal by-Products Regulations (ABPR's). Being compliant with these regulations meant that the Rocket® could treat meat included catering waste. (clients sites may need approval by the state veterinary service, for composting of meat included wastes - contact ACL for further details)
With this, the Rocket® In-Vessel Composter was granted a European patent in early 2003, and by summer of the same year the Rocket® was fully launched.
Which brings us to where we are today. Available in four sizes, A500, A700, A900 and the new A1200, the individual Rocket® In-Vessel Composters have the capacity to treat between 50 and 7000 litres of organic wastes per week, be it garden waste, raw or cooked food waste, including meat and fish or woodchip based animal bedding. Still today the Rocket® is the only in-vessel composter of its size to have been given ABPR approval to treat meat included food waste, and in fact the majority of the applications throughout the UK and Ireland are doing just this.
Rocket® In Vessel Composting Applications
The Rocket® In Vessel composter can be seen operating the length and breadth of the Uk, treating food waste and garden waste in numerous applications, from Community Composting operations, where these groups are collecting kitchen waste from hi rise tenements, prison recycling facilities where the kitchen waste and plate scrapings are processed, to National Trust Estates, who are composting green waste and cafeteria wastes for re use in borders and planting after composting.
Such Examples of Food Waste Composting:-
University Composting:Examples of University food waste recycling can be seen in the later pages of this website, as would be expected the Universities around the country generate large amounts of food wastes, with literally thousands, upon thousands of meals created every day, the food waste arisings can be quite significant. The food wastes in question can come from the main catering outlets or it could be food wastes from student halls or collections, but all of this can usually be processed quite easily on site.There are many University food waste applications throughout the country from Fife to Cornwall, but all with the same reasons for treating their food wastes on site, saving on waste disposal charges and eliminating the need for landfilling wastes. Recent pilot projects in the higher education sector are now being proven and the establishments now investing in our larger scale composting systems to treat even more - or all of their food wastes. |
Hospitality Sector Composting:As would be expected the hospitality sector produces catering wastes, food wastes from almost every venue can be treated at source. Businesses that have a core focus on food will generate food waste by their nature, but the consumer and customer of these venues are requiring them to not only produce top class locally produced food, but to be responsible with their practices as a business too. Conference Centres, Hotels, High end country restaurants and "sub contract" venue or location caterers are now looking at solutions to the food wastes they generate. These food wastes again being recycled on site and bringing growing projects to life in some instances, with the food wastes composted, the food grown in the compost, the food plated and served, to become food wastes again from preparation and plate scrapings, you can't get much more "local food" than this. The cost savings too we are seeing now as the waste disposal charges are rising are very significant, composting has now become not just environmentally the most sensible approach but one of the most financially sensible approaches too. |
Large Business, Zero Waste to Landfill, CSR, ISO14001 and other.Whatever line of business you might be, a call centre employing several thousand people, a large insurance company, an office block processing orders for electrical goods. If you have 50 + people on site and especially if you have a kitchen, cafeteria or catering on site, it's likely you will have food waste. Food waste recycling on site is very, very simple and large multi national companies you might attribute more to fossil fuels than composting even recycle their food wastes on site ! Where the recycling for the company is at a records high, but the last 10% stops you obtaining your aim of zero waste to landfill, then food wastes are probably within that 10%, stakeholder reports too are a driver in some applications with companies needing to enhance their policies in line with their shareholders views - what better than eliminating your food waste from landfill and helping to dampen your establishments contribution to the global warming effect than composting the food and catering wastes on site? |
ACL can be contacted on 01625 666790 for a free demonstration and further details
Quick contact details
Please contact Accelerated Compost Limited on 01625 666790, Skype at QuickCompost or email sales@quickcompost.co.uk for enquiries within:
England - Bath, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cleveland/Teesside, Cornwall, County Durham, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Merseyside, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
Wales - Mid Wales, North Wales, South Wales and West Wales.
Northern Ireland - Belfast, County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry and County Tyrone.
Offshore counties - Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Orkneys and Shetland Isles.
Scotland - Angus & Dundee, Argyll, Ayrshire & Arran, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh & the Lothians, Fife, Glasgow, Grampian, Highlands, Isle of Islay, Isle of Mull, Isle of Skye, Lanarkshire, Perthshire, Stirlingshire and Western Isles.
Southern Ireland / Eire - Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow.
For all other enquiries, please contact Accelerated Compost Limited on 01625 666790 or email info@quickcompost.co.uk.
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Due to our policy of continuous development we reserve the right to change design and specifications without prior notice. Accelerated Compost Limited does not accept responsibility for any loss as a result of any company or person relying on material in this website, or for any mistakes or misprints. Although every care is taken to ensure accuracy, this site is a general guide only and specific technical advice is recommended before proceeding with any transaction. Specific fact sheets, or, technical information is available from Accelerated Compost Limited technical department on 01625 666790.
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