Budgens stores adopt food recycling scheme |
| Wednesday, 22 October 2008 | |
 Two Budgens stores in London have boosted their green credentials by taking on waste management measures that let them dispose of rubbish in a sustainable way. Both stores, run by Andrew Thornton, are to use Cawleys' Food Recycling Round which delivers the waste to an Anaerobic Digestion plant, where it is transformed into electricity that can be used on the national grid. Prior to the move, he said that Budgens had to send the waste to landfill, a process that can potentially damage the environment. Thornton said: "Before we discovered Cawleys we were sending 40% of our waste to landfill, now thanks to the Cawleys we send just 6%. We had been looking for a long time for an environmentally-friendly way to dispose of our food waste." Food waste from Budgens' stores is mixed with pig manure, forming another substance that is then passed onto a fermenter so the anaerobic process can begin. Methane gas produced when bacteria breaks the food waste down is then converted into electricity. The company recently won the Environmental Retailer of the Year award at the Retail Industry Awards. Additionally, Thornton has operated a ban on plastic bags and the Crouch End and Belsize Park stores, along with the recycle-at-till scheme. In related news, Nisa-Today's will trial a packaging waste delivery and recycling programme from the begining of next year at 35 stores. Related Articles
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