Grocery Composting Program
Profit from your waste!
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Fresh Produce
This is the image you want your customers to have. Fresh , clean and organized means that your products are appetizing for your customers. They come in with certain expectations. And, its your job to exceed them.
Lost Its Appeal
Nobody wants food on the shelf that has lost its appeal. A customer’s first impression doesn’t need to be shaped by decaying fruits and vegetables. Aging meats and stale bakery items don’t help develop an appetite either.
Bright Idea
What could you do with the food you can’t sell to your customers? You could throw it in the dumpster and send it to the landfill. Or, you could choose to have a positive impact on your local community’s health and safety. You know, the customers you strive to provide nutritious food to.
Call Refresh Services
A call to Refresh Services is all it takes to get your Grocery Chain started on the road to Food Residual Recycling. You already have the infrastructure and incentive to do it. You’ll use your companies existing logistical system. All composting will take place at a centralized location in an enclosed vessel system.
Bypass The Dumpster
Instead of throwing unsellable food in the dumpster, you’ll collect it for recycling. The bins are water tight and have a sealed and latched top.
Transportation
You’ll make use of your current logistical system.
Pick-up
After unloading the regular delivery, the sealed bin will be loaded for the return trip to your distribution center.
No Additional Cost
The truck carries the bin back to the distribution center. He’s going back anyway.
Hands-Off
The bin is taken by the Refresh Partner located at your Distribution Center. He or she will take it from there. You’re Food Residual Recycling program is in the home stretch.
Loading The Composter
Your Refresh Services Partner will load the Food Residuals into the Composter. The enclosed vessel system is totally enclosed to eliminate any odors or issues with insects. Locating the system at your Distribution Center eliminates the energy required to transport the residuals to another location.
Compost!
Your Food Residuals are converted to nutrient rich compost in just 7 days! Just another addition to your Sustainability Resume’. You can even have the compost bagged so you can sell it at your stores. Think about it. You’re turning what was waste into a profitable product. And, once your customers realize what you’ve done for them, they’ll be back often.