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Innovative food recycling for grocery retailers
As the partner managing 11% of all uneaten food from consumer-facing sectors across the U.S., we help you hit your landfill diversion goals. We make recycling easy for all food types so your back-of-store operations run smoothly.

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Why top grocers partner with Denali
All food items, one bin
Eliminate the need to separate meat or manually unbox and unwrap expired products. Our pioneering tech maximizes landfill diversion by cleanly separating food from packaging, so you can reallocate labor back to food recovery efforts and store operations.
Flexible service options
You can integrate organic recycling into your existing transportation network. We offer flexible collection options that utilize backhaul routes to reduce empty miles, saving lowering your carbon footprint and reducing the vendor traffic on your property.
Cost reduction
Reduce trash hauls and disposal fees by diverting heavy organic materials to a lower-cost sustainable stream.
Sustainability reporting
We provide granular impact reports that offer full visibility into your landfill diversion metrics and how your recycling extends the life of your food, ensuring your sustainability goals are met and verified.
How it works: one program, total solution
Scalable Solutions
We design a right-sized diversion program that integrates seamlessly into your workflow.
Reliable Collection
We ensure flexible, consistent pickups to keep your daily operations running smoothly.
Repurpose Waste
We transform your food into valuable resources like animal feed, organic fertilizer, and renewable fuel.
Track Results
We provide the transparent data needed to verify your total environmental impact.
Grocery and Retail FAQs
We provide a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to streamline your back-of-house operations and maximize landfill diversion. Our core grocery services include organics recycling and depackaging as well as liquid and palletized waste destruction. In select regions, we also provide used cooking oil collection, grease trap cleaning, and hydro jetting.
Landfill diversion is our non-negotiable goal. As the nationwide industry leader with a massive network of recycling facilities, we ensure your organic materials are actually repurposed. We transform your unsold food into renewable energy, compost, and animal feed, providing the traceability and impact reporting you need to prove your compliance and sustainability goal progress to stakeholders.
We collect food waste and organic materials and process them through a network of facilities using technologies like depackaging, composting, and anaerobic digestion. This allows even packaged or expired food to be recycled properly.
Getting started is simple. Our team works with you to design a program that fits your operations, locations, and goals — making food recycling practical, scalable, and effective.
It typically lowers them. By moving heavy organic materials (like produce and meat) out of your general trash compactor, you significantly reduce haul costs. Plus, because our single-stream solution accepts meat and poultry, you can often eliminate the need for separate, costly rendering services.
It means turning back-of-house organics disposal into a front-of-house sustainability story. First, Denali collects unsold food and transforms it into premium renewable products. Some of these, like our ReCirculate™ compost, can even be re-stocked on store shelves, closing the loop of the circular economy. The organic material that left the loading dock returns as a high-quality organic product customers can buy. We provide the traceability reports to validate this journey, giving our partners a powerful, verifiable narrative to share with their shoppers.
It’s the key to saving labor while scaling your landfill diversion. Instead of paying staff to manually separate packaging from food, your team simply places unsold items into a designated collection bin. We then transport these materials to our facilities, where our advanced depackaging technology automatically separates the organic material from its packaging. This frees up valuable hours for your staff to focus on food recovery, flash sales, and donation programs, ensuring edible food reaches the community while the rest is responsibly recycled into new resources. It can also boost employee morale, ensuring time saved can go to other operations.
Customers work with Denali to reduce landfill costs, increase landfill material diversion, improve sustainability performance, meet regulatory requirements, improve employee morale, and demonstrate environmental leadership with measurable reporting to support ESG goals.
Yes. We act as a data partner, providing granular metrics on tonnage diverted, carbon emissions avoided, and renewable energy generated. This data is audit-ready for your annual sustainability reports.
We offer peace of mind through redundancy. As a nationwide leader, Denali has the network to provide backup collection and hauling solutions, ensuring your production line never stops due to a waste system failure. We also proudly introduced the nation’s first mobile recycling solution to handle emergency outages.
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Help your supermarket thrive sustainably
We’re the leader of food recycling recycling programs for supermarkets. Our solutions make it easy for grocery retailers to eliminate food waste and support their sustainability goals and compliance requirements. With flexible collection options and depackaging, we can help supermarkets recycle their unsellable food items more efficiently.


Food recycling is just the beginning
In addition to our unsellable food recycling programs, we also offer a range of other services to help your supermarket thrive. Depending on your location, you may have access to:
- Emergency on-site depackaging & recycling
- Liquid destruction & palletized waste recycling
- Used cooking oil recycling
- Grease trap cleaning & services
- Hydro jetting
Our knowledgeable consultants can help you review your current operations to identify areas of improvement and potential cost savings. We’ll work closely with you to create a customized solution that meets your specific needs. Our experienced team will guide you through the process to make sure your supermarket is running as efficiently and sustainably as possible.
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