Food Waste Recycling for Business

Food is an expensive input for your business; reducing and recycling food waste allows you to save money while also demonstrating to your customers your environmental commitment. This comprehensive, practical guide covers how small and medium-sized businesses can recycle their food waste.

Here’s a list of businesses that may find this guide helpful: 

• restaurants and cafes 

• bakeries 

• takeaways 

• pubs and clubs 

• food manufacturers 

• fresh food retailers 

• accommodations services. 

Around 239,580 tonnes of food waste is generated each year by the food retail and hospitality sector. Recycling Victoria is the Victorian Government’s circular economy policy’s latest economy and action plan for waste and recycling. This policy aims to halve the volume of food and green waste going to landfills by 2030. Food waste recycling for business guide supports this target by helping Victorian businesses to recycle their food waste.

While this guide provides extensive information and advice, it also helps one choose a food waste recycling system by identifying and considering different food waste recycling systems. These systems fall into two main types, collection services, and on-site systems.