Contract caterer bartlett mitchell gets recycling

13th December 2010, 10:18am

Contract caterer bartlett mitchell has introduced new food waste recycling facilities at two of its sites.

The large-scale recycling units, in the form of wormeries, deal with over 90% of food waste from the kitchens and staff restaurants at two operations – IT company Symantec in Reading and green energy company, Johnson Matthey in Swindon.

Dawn Brock-Hoskins, bartlett mitchell's catering manager, said: "The wormery has been going for 12 months now and it's been successful. We started by only putting food waste in but now it takes most of the paper and cardboard from the client's premises too.

"It does take a while for the wormery to get established and it also needs careful managing, but we're hopeful that we'll soon get the first output from the wormery, in the form of worm casts, for use in Johnson Matthey's grounds."

Wendy Bartlett, managing director of bartlett Mitchell, added: "Green initiatives are a priority for many of our clients and wormeries are an excellent pro-active solution for those clients that have the space and facilities to install one of these units. The idea has been well received and we're now in discussions with a number of other clients about installing wormeries at their sites too."

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