Food Waste Manufacturing Resource Guide

Download our Food Manufacturing Waste Resource Guide to learn about the benefits of recycling food waste and the services Denali can help you meet sustainability goals, reduce odors from uncollected food waste and provide helpful data to improve your business.

Food Manufacturers

We make it easy for food processors and manufacturers to manage dry and liquid food waste in a way that works for you. We create a custom solution that fits your needs and helps you reach your landfill diversion goals. Just like your manufacturing team, Denali works around the clock to get the job done.

Why Recycle Food Waste?

Cost Savings: By reducing waste disposal costs and potentially generating revenue through the sale of repurposed food waste, collecting food waste can be cost-effective for food manufacturers.

Landfills are filling up fast: Food waste takes up valuable space in the limited number of landfills we have left. By diverting food waste away from landfills, we extend their life and repurpose this material for a more sustainable use by making animal feed, compost, fertilizer & biodiesel

Promoting Sustainability & Encouraging Circular Economy: Collecting food waste promotes sustainability by reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and by creating opportunities for waste to be repurposed and reused as compost, animal feed, biofuel and other products rather than simply discarding it.

Types of Food Waste from Manufacturing

1. Dry Goods: Dry goods manufacturing refers to producing food items that have a long shelf life and can be stored without refrigeration. Examples of dry goods include grains, cereals, pasta, beans, and nuts. The manufacturing process involves various steps such as cleaning, sorting, milling, blending, packaging, and labeling. As such, commercial bakers and manufacturers typically require custom solutions for their disposal needs. There are various ways to handle recycling byproducts that will depend on several factors such as volume, type of materials, available space, and loading equipment.
2. Liquid Waste: Liquid waste refers to the production of liquid byproducts from various industry processes. This can include wastewater from food processing plants, dairy waste, fruit and vegetable processing waste, cooking oil and grease waste, liquid food waste from restaurants, brewery waste, and pulp and juice processing waste. Proper management of liquid food waste is important to reduce its environmental impact and prevent pollution. Methods of management may include composting, anaerobic digestion, or treatment and discharge in wastewater treatment plants.

Our Experience

Our experienced team of experts is dedicated to helping you find the best food waste solutions for your business. Processing everything from bakery and milk to frozen dinners and gummy snacks can result in large amounts of waste. As you continue to search for responsible ways to remove and divert these waste products, we offer solutions and provide equipment for all types of residuals resulting from industrial food processes.

We also offer unique solutions, such as product depackaging, that mechanically extracts organic materials from packaged goods. We use a range of technologies to keep food waste out of landfills, including composting, conversion to animal feed, and land application.

We Are A Strategic Partner Who Can:

• Create alternative solutions to reduce your impact on the environment.
• Help meet the state and federal sustainability demands of the future Zero Landfill Company (FSMA Food Safety Modernization Act compliance).
• Support multi-site locations through our broad geographic footprint.
• Support multi-faceted waste streams.
• Deliver secure online reporting to help you optimize your operation.
• Certificates of Destructions available upon request.