Continued investment in secure food waste destruction and recycling

Swancote Energy was founded in 2011 as a bio-fuel business and started producing electricity a year later. Since then the company has grown year after year, increasing the amount of electricity it supplies and gradually switching focus, to use food waste rather than bio-fuel crops as its main raw material.

The goal has been to provide a complete solution for dealing with food waste in the most sustainable manner, so that in actual fact, nothing goes to waste at all. The company has increased the capacity of its anaerobic digestion plant, introduced a pasteurisation facility for producing organic fertiliser, and continued to expand its de-packing lines, to handle all types of food waste and its corresponding packaging.

“In 2022 Swancote became the first, and so far only, UK company to install an optical sorter. This enables the business to sort different plastics by polymer type, so that no recyclable plastic needs to go to landfill or incineration.”

Swancote Energy timeline

2011  –  company founded and anaerobic digestion plant installation begins

2012  –  Swancote starts to produce electricity at 4,370 MWe per annum

2013  –  electricity production increases to 18,000 MWe per annum

2015  –  electricity production at 29,784 MWe per year, 60% of raw material is commercial food waste

2022  –  optical sorter installed and 90% of raw material used is food waste

“We have continued to invest and grown organically to become a leading specialist in handling commercial food waste.”

Click on the links below to find out more about:

•  food waste collection

•  secure food waste destruction

•  sustainable benefits from food waste

For more information on costs for food waste collection and destruction, please go to the prices page or telephone 01746 716400.

You can also email enquiries@swancoteenergy.com or fill in the form on this page.