Speaker 13 Mr James Cherry Environmental Manager Greencore Group - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Speaker 13 Mr James Cherry

Environmental Manager

Greencore Group

james.cherry@greencore.com

Greencore Group

• Convenience Foods:

– Sandwiches – Chilled meals – Cakes & Desserts – Mineral water – Frozen Yorkshire puddings – Frozen desserts – Pickles, sauces & dressings – Quiche, meat spreads – Chilled sauces & soups

• Ingredients:

– Malts – Sugar – Agricultural supplies

• Joint Ventures:

– Molasses – Flour – Yeast

Key Locations around Europe

Waste Management

• Greencore philosophy on waste:

– Priorities for sustainability in line with waste hierarchy

Eliminate

Best environmental option for dealing with waste – avoid producing it! Reduce Waste minimisation should be applied to all types of waste Reuse Is there an alternative use for the material? Recycle Conversion of waste materials to re-make raw materials or alternate products Recover Conversion of waste materials into useful energy Dispose The worst environmental option. This should be the last resort!

Waste Management

• Inevitably end up with some waste for disposal

(mainly food & contaminated packaging)

• Currently going to landfill
• Challenge to move up the hierarchy
• Target zero waste to landfill
• Solution = renewable energy from waste food &

contaminated packaging

• Note – original driver was ABP regs

Process Sequence: 3 main stages

FEED FEED RECEPTION RECEPTION PRE PRE -

• SHREDDER

SHREDDER INETEC INETEC MACHINES MACHINES STORAGE STORAGE

LIQUID LIQUID STORAGE STORAGE

GAS GAS CONVERTER CONVERTER Ash Residue Ash Residue

Carbon Activation Carbon Activation

BLAST BLAST COOLER COOLER SCRUBBER SCRUBBER ENGINE ENGINE GENERATOR GENERATOR

ELECTRICAL ELECTRICAL ENERGY ENERGY

ENGINE EXHAUST ENGINE EXHAUST

The Process

Waste Collection

• Standard collection methods
• Process can cope with mixed food and packaging

waste

• Process can cope with a range of packaging

materials including glass

• No need to segregate

(Note: segregation systems will be maintained to optimise recycling opportunities)

Closing the loop

• Once operational Greencore will send virtually

zero waste to landfill

• Our own waste can be used to provide

renewable energy to run our processes

• Renewable energy replaces fossil fuels
• Increased recycling from difficult wastes

(e.g. glass jar of sauce with metal cap)

• As network develops – more localised solution

for waste recovery and renewable energy

Now for a little more information on the process and the technology…………..