Disposing of solid wastes and recyclables became a cost-control challenge for New Zealand businesses when China decided to refuse poorly presented materials. Bleating is pointless – as a country, New Zealand has stayed too long with the laggard’s perception of how good it is at diverting waste without doing it comprehensively itself.
Pioneer Group is heartened by these new challenges because innovation has kept the business on the front foot. It was interested in composting-at-work because it had built green waste operations but saw that as too intrusive on core business.
Fill-and-forget using simple digestion to produce a low BOD/ low solids effluent that can go down the drain is better for the food service operator. The Waste2Zero modular unit – looking like a large top-loaded washing machine – will digest 180kg per day. Digestion is the key word; anything a human can digest, these will too. Nothing to take out, just connect it to the drain and toss in food waste, fatty, oily, meaty whatever – along with the right bacteria – and go home.
Pioneer Group also offers cardboard and plastics balers, glass crushers and other options to help reduce waste costs. For more information call 0800 003 976.
