Recipe for cost cutting

A specialist supermarket food supplier is making money from waste after joining forces with Greenbank waste handling and equipment company. Deli Solutions in Clitheroe now has a new revenue stream that has generated £57,000 in 10 months after an overhaul of its recycling practices. The company has installed a customised machine that lifts bins and crushes 5kg tins that its produce arrives in.

Greenbank arranges monthly collection and disposal of the steel, for which Deli Solutions is paid.

The recycling and waste management system has enabled Deli Solutions to process 170t of tin and 15t of card in 2011, saving £30,000 on landfill and collection costs