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Keenan Recycling
Award winning UK food waste collections and recycling company
About Keenan Recycling
Keenan Recycling is the UK's largest commercial food waste collection company, with nationwide coverage! We collect food waste on behalf of waste management companies, brokers and councils. We also service all business that generate food waste. We operate the largest food waste collection fleet, and uniquely offer bin weighing on every bin lift collections, along with a bin rinsing service on selected routes. Our food waste is then turned into biofuel through the anaerobic digestion process and turned into renewable energy. In the North of Scotland, we own and operate the largest vertical composting unit in Europe for food and garden waste. We are developing a Net Zero Transition Plan and have a clear aim to create a sustainable zero carbon food waste collection business and have committed to replacing our existing diesel fuelled vehicles with alternative renewable technologies by 2030.
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Products & Services
Keenan Recycling highlighted that the island of Tilos changed the way waste is handled by implementing door-to-door collections, separate recycling, separate organic waste, food waste turned into fertiliser, and non-recyclables turned into alternative fuel
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Legal & Regulatory
Keenan Recycling noted that the tiny Greek island of Tilos achieved Zero Waste Cities Certification with recycling and composting rates close to 90%
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Products & Services
Keenan Recycling launched the An Ode To Oddity campaign to celebrate the wonky side of food and rescue fruit and vegetable waste.
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Research & Knowledge
Keenan Recycling notes that Brighton & Hove City Council recorded its highest-ever recycling rate of 31.6%, up 7.2 percentage points year-on-year.
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Operations & Supply
Keenan Recycling is involved in anaerobic digestion of whisky production residues in Speyside to produce biomethane capable of decarbonising over 30,000 Scottish homes.
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