Green firm to Tidy college food waste
STAFF at environmental firm Tidy Planet have gone back to college, to install waste recycling equipment.
The company, located at Tytherington Business
Park, has sold an A900 Rocket Composter to the City of Glasgow College where it will be used to compost an estimated 26 tonnes of food waste a year.
This will also reduce the two campus college’s carbon footprint by eliminating waste disposal truck visits.
Huw Crampton, sales manager at Tidy Planet, said: “We’ve worked with many institutions not just across the country but around the world, helping them to implement composting into their waste management strategies – and this is our third project in Scotland this year.
“Even with the pandemic going on, the country’s waste still needs dealing with. Entities of all sizes – and from various sectors – are increasingly trying to ‘do their bit’ when it comes to the present and future welfare of our planet.
“Recycling rate and zero landfill are big topics in industry, and have been for a long time, but maybe there should be a new category that more businesses are interested in – ‘recycled at source,’ helping them to maximise resource potential and speed up the waste-handling process.”
The new process will see food waste collected by staff in the on-campus kitchens then processed through their dewatering system, before the substance is fed into the composter to create a nutritious compost resource, in 14 days.
Equipment will be operated by both staff and students.