IMC`s solution to the diversion of caterers` food waste from landfill is founded on an extensive 3 year research programme that was concluded in 2006 by senior academics at London`s Imperial College. The solution enables waste producers to recycle their food waste into a high quality compost on site and has already been recognised by numerous awards from both the catering and waste management industries. Imperial College is renowned globally for the quality of its teaching with over 13,000 full time and 1,000 part time students enrolled at any one time and over 6,000 staff including academic, research and support personnel. Maintaining the highest academic standards also puts pressure on every service and support facility to achieve the utmost level of professionalism and to deliver ...

The MoD's new Defence Food Service School's �21.9 million move to refitted premises at Worthy Down, near Winchester, has led to a pioneering kitchen food waste recycling installation, believed to be the largest of its type in the world. IMC's multi-award winning recycling solution has been adopted by the School to enable all food waste generated from its kitchens to be cost-effectively converted into high quality compost for use on the grounds' green and planted areas. Ultimately, this may lead to the School becoming fully sustainable by using the compost to grow its own produce. The School, which relocated from Aldershot early in 2009, operates 12 highly specified kitchen classrooms and two realistic working environment kitchens that have been designed to prov...

When Karen Cmela joined as Head of Support Services of AEG Europe, owners of The O2 (or Millenium Dome as it used to be known), she embarked on a series of initiatives that would fulfil AEG's objective of maximizing the diversion of its waste from landfill. Whilst the Green Agenda was high on AEG's list of priorities, the commercial necessity to reduce costs was even more important. Dry recyclable waste products such as tins, cans, glass, plastics, cardboard and paper were all relatively straightforward to dispose of. Food waste, on the other hand, was, no pun intended, a completely different kettle of fish and provided Karen with a much more difficult problem to solve. With an annual programme of around 200 shows and events, The O2's 20 food concession units are regularly operating...