Mui Wo Island is a rural town on the eastern coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong with a population of approximately 5500 residents. The Hong Kong Outlying Islands Women’s Association (OIWA) coordinated a food waste recycling scheme where participating families are provided with air-tight food waste containers to store food waste. The containers are … Continued
Macau has an estimated population of 575,000 living in an area of 30.3 km2 (11.6 sq mi). It takes 30 minutes to travel by car from the north end of Macau bordering China to the south end of Macau. It is considered one of the most densely populated region in the world. With Macao’s small geographic area and high cost … Continued
Barwon Health was one of the first health organization in Australia to introduce a ClosedLoop composting system. It recycles food waste from 3000 meals a day into composting material that is then donated to Magic Meadows, a self-sustainable farm. The farm in turn provides product to FoodSkill; a social enterprise that gives socially disadvantaged people access … Continued
Landfilling can be a significant cost increase due to longer travel distance. Several areas, notably San Francisco and New York City, are requiring business and residences to separate food waste from trash. This can increase truck transportation and labor costs due to separate pickups and longer travel distance to commercial composting facilities. Many green waste … Continued
Cecconi’s is an Italian restaurant located at Flinder’s Lane in Melbourne, Australia. They source their fresh ingredients from local producers, organic wherever possible, and from their own home-grown vegetables from the family farm. They are committed to all things fresh and environmentally friendly, and have recently installed the “Closed Loop Organics unit by Oklin” composter, distributed … Continued
Healesville Hotel has recently been awarded the prestigious accolade of Best Regional Restaurant in Victoria, Australia’s Yarra Valley. The hotel is now taking another step in its culinary progression with the installation of a Closed Loop Organic composting unit to compost food waste onsite. After installing the food waste composting unit, Healesville Hotel converts approximately … Continued
What’s the problem with food waste? Approximately 33% of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year is wasted each year When food rots, it creates methane gas (CH4) which has 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide Every time food is wasted, the water, energy, time, manpower, land, fertilizer, … Continued
NOMA, a two-Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen installed a food waste composting machine to compost their kitchen food scraps. The composting machine turns food waste into compost, reducing its volume by 90 per cent, in 24 hours. The output is a compost that can be used in horticulture applications. At NOMA, food scraps are collected from the … Continued
Ajman, the smallest emirate in the UAE, disposes 600 tonnes of waste to landfills everyday – an alarming number for a state with a population of 240,000. Iftikhar Hamdani, general manager at Ramada Hotel & Suites Ajman, realized that his hotel generates 950kg of food waste, where the kitchen produces 60% of the waste. Hamdani focused … Continued
Oklin’s composter at Union Gospel Mission featured in The Province in Vancouver, BC Union Gospel Mission serves over 320,000 meals a year, and there is an inevitable significant volume of waste that is generated. Instead of paying the high cost of organics removal every week, UGM has invested in an Oklin Composter to compost food waste on-site. For … Continued