Food Waste

In addition to comprehensive recycling and waste management, iSustain has a team dedicated to the efficient recycling and transportation of industrial food waste.

Often food manufacturers have to ineffectively dispose of millions of tons of packaged and non-packaged food waste every year. A 2011 report estimated 20 percent of initial food production is lost from products not meeting grading requirements in North America, Europe, Oceania, and Latin America.

iSustain Inc proactively helps manufacturing and distribution operations develop food waste recycling programs. We have extensive network that allows us to recycle large volumes of food waste into beneficial reuse or energy. Our process ensures full product destruction and diversion from landfill.

With the rising cost of disposal and landfill bans, we have been working hard to seek out markets and develop technologies that turn organic food waste into favorable value. We work closely with a variety of programs that share our food waste recycling vision to ensure the best channel for your organic recycling needs have been used. Possible solutions include;

Animal Feed
Composting
Anaerobic Digestion
Ethanol production

WHO DO WE SERVICE

We service large quantity industrial generators of pre-consumer food waste such as food distribution, producers, retailers and transportation/logistics carriers. Anyone that generates large quantities of organics that need recycling, we can help.

WHAT TYPES OF MATERIALS?

Expired, distressed or otherwise unsalable food products
Food ingredients – bulk
Drinks – soda, alcohol
Oils & Grease
Perishable food (bulk and packaged)
Food disposals and/or food seizures
Packaged foods (glass, cans, plastic packaging)
Recalled Products
Certified Product Destruction

BENEFITS TO YOUR OPERATION

New Labor Savings, we can eliminate depackging needs.
Eliminate landfill costs
New revenue streams
Assured Destruction, our recycling process assures complete destruction and confidentiality.
Comply with regulatory requirements or bans

Here are 10 facts you might not know about food waste:

1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year. This amounts to 1 trillion dollars of wasted or lost food
If wasted food were a country, it would be the third largest producer of carbon dioxide in the world, after the United States and China
Just one quarter of all wasted food could feed the 795 million undernourished people around the world who suffer from hunger
Food waste in rich countries (222 million tons) is approximately equivalent to all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tons)
A European or North American consumer wastes almost 100 kilograms of food annually, which is more than his or her weight (70 kilograms)
A European or North American consumer wastes 15 times more food than a typical African consumer
Lack of technology and infrastructure is the main cause of food waste in Africa, as opposed to household food waste in the developed world
Food waste in Europe alone could feed 200 million hungry people
Food waste generates 3.3 billions tons of carbon dioxide, which accelerates global climate change

Contact Us Today!

Whether you currently have a food scrap recycling program or not, a call to iSustain is worth your while. We can often find additional recycling options for both your food and non-food manufacturing waste. With you, it is possible to eliminate landfills. Contact us today, and our professionals will develop a solution.

Helpful Links

EPA https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food

Grocery Manufacturers Association http://www.gmaonline.org/

Food Marketing Institute http://www.fmi.org/

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Trade Bureau https://www.ttb.gov/

Biocycle www.biocycle.net