Food and Beverage Waste Management FAQs
What does Cumberland Recycling do? Cumberland Recycling is a food and beverage waste management company that works with food and beverage manufacturers, distributors, 3PL partners, packagers, and processors. We specialize in diverting waste from landfills and partner with organizations that can instead turn it into animal feed, compost, or bioenergy. We can also connect you with partners who want to repurpose or reuse waste or byproducts, or who can recycle plastic, cardboard, metal, and other packaging.
Do you provide residential service? No, we only offer industrial services.
Do you offer nationwide services? We provide services across 18 states: Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
How do you determine what services my facility needs? We begin with a waste audit and assessment. We will determine the type and volume of waste your facility produces, and review your sustainability goals and existing waste management and recycling plan. We’ll then design a tailored plan that can help you save time and money, comply with industry standards and regulations, reduce environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions, and meet your sustainability or zero-waste goals.
What is a waste audit, and why is it needed? A waste audit is a systematic, comprehensive assessment of your facility’s waste and recycling processes. We analyze waste to identify inefficiencies and improve waste diversion. This can save time and money, divert waste from landfills, ensure environmental compliance, and support your sustainability goals.
Industrial Food and Beverage Recycling FAQs
What is food recycling, and what types of products or items do you recycle? We handle food waste and recycling for bakery items, candy and confections, snack foods, fish and meat, condiments, dairy products, grains, beverages, expired and spoiled products, production residues, and more. We also handle solid organic waste and liquids, including fats, oils, and wastewater pre-treatment sludge. These materials can often be repurposed into animal feed, compost, soil additives, and other products. We also handle the recycling of food and beverage packaging.
Why is industrial waste recycling important for businesses? Our services can keep items out of landfills and allow them to be reused or repurposed for the greater good. This process can save you time and money, reduce waste disposal fees, and support sustainability goals. Some of the biggest benefits of food waste recycling are cost savings, mitigated risk of improper waste disposal, regulatory and industry compliance, improved brand reputation, enhanced operational efficiency, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact, supply chain stability, and a safer and more streamlined manufacturing facility.
How is industrial recycling different from commercial recycling? Industrial recycling involves the processing of high-volume waste and requires specialized knowledge and equipment. It may include materials like oil, fat, grease, wastewater pre-treatment sludge, manufacturing byproducts, metal, plastic, glass, paper, chemicals, and more. Commercial recycling primarily involves office and business materials like paper, cardboard, packaging, plastic, and Styrofoam. The volume may be smaller and may include more mixed waste streams.
How does industrial waste recycling help reduce a company’s carbon footprint? Industrial waste recycling decreases the need for energy-intensive raw material extraction, lowers energy consumption, diverts waste from landfills, finds new uses for materials, and minimizes environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions.
Do you facilitate cardboard, glass, plastic, or other recycling? We can find solutions for a wide range of materials, including packaging waste, discards, and scraps. We can handle wood and plastic pallets, cardboard, stretch film, plastic crates, polyethylene liners and bags, Styrofoam, polystyrene, polypropylene, and more.
What happens to the food, waste, and packaging that you recycle? We have partnered with a portfolio of buyers, and handle product brokerage to help facilities find buyers for waste or byproducts they want to recycle. These items may be recycled into new materials, keeping them out of landfills.
