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North Carolina’s single solution for all food recycling
Packaged or unpackaged. Liquid or solid. We provide one streamlined service for any businesses handling food across North Carolina — from local kitchens to regional distribution centers.
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Making an impact is easy: one bin. All food. Zero hassle.
We don’t ask you to sort, unpackage, or stress about what goes where. We simplify your recycling so you can focus on your business.
If it’s food, it goes in.
Don't worry about separating plastics or cardboard. Our advanced technology handles food scraps (including meat), expired produce, and fully packaged goods in the same stream.
Shift your spend, don't increase it.
Stop paying for separate meat rendering services and extra food trash disposal fees. Our program allows you to shift disposal toward a sustainable solution, often with no additional disposal costs or even additional savings.
Tell a "table-to-farm" story:
Show your diners your commitment to sustainability by recycling food into natural compost, supporting sustainable local agriculture. Every bit of food thrown in the trash ends up in a local landfill, impacting the air and land quality in your community. Denali ensures your ingredients are recycled into high quality compost and soil products, which are returned to farms in your region.
Local reliability, national scale.
We combine the agility of a local fleet (capable of navigating tight alleyways) with the reliability of the nation’s largest organic recycler.
How it works: your complete recycling solution
Let’s set up a recycling program that fits your business.
Simple setup
We assess your volume and space for a right-sized solution. We provide leak-proof, tamper-resistant bins and a pickup schedule to match your output.
Plug-and-play collection
Toss packaged or unpackaged food into the same container. We make sure it’s all responsibly separated and the food recycled into compost.
Reliable service
We operate on a schedule you can count on. Our local fleet ensures timely pickups so your property stays clean and operations never slow down.
Track results
We provide the transparent data needed to verify landfill-diverted resources and total environmental impact for sharing with your customers and stakeholders.
Restaurant FAQs
We provide food recycling services across the state's major metropolitan hubs. Our routes currently cover Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Fayetteville. If your business is located just outside these areas, please contact us — we recycle food nationwide and are rapidly expanding our routes to meet demand.
We supply everything you need to make implementation seamless. This includes clean, secure food collection bins that fit your space constraints and prevent leakage and tampering. We also provide educational signage for your staff and training resources to ensure your team knows exactly what can be recycled (hint: it’s almost everything).
It stays in the community. We process organic materials at our local facilities, including Wallace Farm and SMART Recycling sites (both now proud members of the Denali family). Instead of occupying space in a landfill, your unused food is converted into valuable compost, supporting North Carolina agriculture.
It’s simple: you fill the provided bins with food, scraps, and liquids. Then, we pick up your unusable food on a schedule that works for you. No stress, no mess.
No. This is the Denali difference. You can toss packaged or unpackaged food scraps, liquids, bread, veggies, and meat directly into our bins. Our facilities use technology to separate the packaging from the food later, keeping your workflow efficient.
Our program is designed to be cleaner than a dumpster. We use secure, leak-proof and tamper-proof containers that keep materials fully enclosed to prevent leaks and spills. Our frequent, reliable pickup schedule ensures food is removed from your site quickly — minimizing odors and reducing pest risks. We also rinse containers during every service.
Grocery & Manufacturer FAQs
No. This is a major labor saver. Your team can toss fully packaged goods — bottled drinks, boxed produce, wrapped meat, or palletized dry goods — directly into our collection bin. Our automated depackaging technology separates the organic material from the plastic and cardboard, recycling all food.
Organic material is heavy and expensive to send to a landfill. By diverting this weight to a recycling stream, you significantly reduce the tonnage of your general trash hauls. This allows you to shift your spend — moving budget from expensive landfilling to a sustainable recycling program, often resulting in net-neutral or reduced total costs.
We offer tailored solutions based on your volume and infrastructure.
- Route Service: Reliable, scheduled pickups for standard volumes.
- Custom Logistics: For high-volume manufacturers and distribution centers, we can arrange right-sized pickup details or integrate with your logistics (backhaul service) to collect materials at your distribution center.
We guarantee brand protection. For manufacturers and grocers dealing with distressed loads or recalls, we ensure 100% destruction of the product. We provide Certificates of Destruction upon request, giving you the assurance that off-spec goods are processed securely and never re-enter the market.
Yes. We act as your data partner. You will receive transparent reports detailing tonnage diverted and carbon emissions avoided. This data is audit-ready, allowing you to validate your environmental impact for corporate sustainability goals and stakeholder reporting.
Still have questions?
For restaurants & hospitality
- The problem: Limited space, messy bins, and confusing sorting rules.
- The Denali solution: We provide clean, leak-proof, right-sized bins for your kitchen. Your team simply scrapes plates and tosses unused food — no sorting required.
- The impact: Keep your back-of-house clean, secure your recyclables from tampering, and tell a great sustainability story to your diners.
For grocers & manufacturers
- The problem: High volumes of expired, packaged inventory and labor-intensive destruction.
- The Denali solution: Turn a burden into a benefit. Stop paying employees to unwrap expired goods. Our depackaging machinery separates organic material from packaging, recycling both streams efficiently.
- The impact: Divert tons of material from landfills, reduce trash compactor pulls, and hit your corporate sustainability goals with audit-ready data.
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