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Composting for healthcare & care homes

Food waste management for clinics, hospitals, care homes and residential homes. Strict hygiene, no nuisance, and food waste recycled at source: one of the two routes Article 22 provides.

A worked example

What it looks like on a typical site

894kg of food waste a year, estimated for a 25-bed care home
79€ excl. VAT a month: composter, bulking material, maintenance and support
9removals a year: how often the mature compost has to be taken away, arranged locally
Your constraints

Three constraints
you know well

No pests, no odour

Your residents are vulnerable and your reputation rests on cleanliness. A smell of bins, flies, a rat spotted: a disaster.

Our answer. The ABC composter, closed, in 2 mm steel, with continuously aerated by its aeration chimney. No odour escapes, no pest gets in. It can be installed close to residents' rooms.

Traceability & inspections

Your regulatory inspections, your quality audits, your external assessments: everything has to be documented. Waste management is part of that, and it is often where the gap is.

Our answer. A log sheet supplied with the composter: date, weight and destination at each emptying. You keep the record, and we give you the emission factors and the method so your own team can calculate the saving.

Care staff who are already stretched

Your care assistants and cleaning staff cannot take on compost management as well. No time, no training.

Our answer. A very simple sorting action, 45 minutes of training, signage provided. We look after the maintenance and the bulking material; your teams sort, and that is all.

A worked case, with figures

A 25-bed care home,
and what it costs

25 residents fed all year round, meals prepared on site and trays returned. The figures below come from our calculator, using the same method as your online quote.

The volume
  • 25 bedsoccupied all year
  • 365 daysthe home never closes
  • Kitchen on sitepreparation, returned trays and peelings

894 kg of food waste a year

That is 894 kg a year. A steady volume with no seasonality, which makes sizing straightforward.

The quote that follows
  • 1 ABC composterdelivered, bulking material, maintenance, training by video call and awareness kit79 €

Total79 € excl. VAT/month

48-month commitment. You keep the compost and use it on site.

Optional Removal of the mature compost, if you do not use it yourself: it is arranged with a local operator of your choice, and we help you scope the brief. As a French benchmark, a site like this one takes 9 collections a year, that is +90 € excl. VAT a month, bringing the total to 169 € excl. VAT a month.

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Composter and planted bed in the grounds of a care facility
On your site, in practice

How it works on your site

From accepting the quote to the first emptying: the location is agreed within 24 hours, delivery follows in 1 to 3 weeks.

  1. Where it goes

    In the grounds or near the logistics area, away from bedrooms and visitor routes. Firm access for emptying.

  2. The caddies in the kitchen and the serveries

    One in preparation, one per tray-return servery. Emptied after each service, washed like any other equipment.

  3. Training, protocols included

    One session with the catering team and the care assistants, fitted to your hygiene protocols. The action joins the existing routine without changing it.

  4. Taking the compost away

    Nine removals a year in this case, arranged with a local operator. The reporting feeds your quality audits and your sustainability file.

Two ways of doing it

The composter on its own,
or with a local collection

Emptying is optional. If you have a green space, a kitchen garden or planted beds, the compost stays with you.

The most economical

79 € excl. VAT/month

The ABC composter delivered, the bulking material delivered, maintenance, remote training and the team awareness kit. You keep the compost and use it on site.

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With local collection

169 € excl. VAT/month

The same, plus the mature compost taken away: 9 removals a year for this example, handled by a local operator you contract. Nothing piles up on your site.

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In France, collection is billed at 10 € excl. VAT a month per annual visit, from 1 to 12 collections a year depending on your actual volumes; elsewhere the removal of the mature compost is arranged with a local operator of your choice, and we help you scope the brief. Above 1,500 kg a year, a second composter is added.

Your obligation

Food waste separated at source: this now applies to you

Healthcare and care settings produce large, steady volumes of food waste. Wherever you operate, that flow now has to be separated at source, alongside your existing hygiene obligations; the exact regime depends on your jurisdiction.

Rules differ from one jurisdiction to the next, but the direction is the same everywhere: food waste has to be separated at source and recovered, either composted on site or collected separately. Check what applies where you operate.

The rules where you operate
Case study

What it looks like in a care setting

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Questions from the sector

What we are asked most often

Is composting compatible with our hygiene protocols?

Yes. The composter is closed, installed outdoors and away from care areas. In the kitchen, the caddy is handled like any ordinary food container: emptied, washed, disinfected according to your procedures.

Could residents or families be bothered by it?

Aerobic composting produces no odour, and the location is chosen away from visitor routes. In several homes the compost is used in the therapeutic garden and becomes an activity in its own right.

Who handles what?

Your own teams. They tip the caddies into the composter, and when the compost is ready they empty it into a 120 L bin: under five minutes, with no compost handled by hand. The bulking material and the maintenance are covered by the rent.

What about during an infection control period?

The route stays outdoors and contact-free: emptying happens in the logistics area, without entering the building.

The 36 questions in the FAQ →

Contract catering raises the same questions with local authorities and in hotels & resorts.

Central kitchen, meal trays, tight schedules. It is the emptying that adapts.Peazy, the Easy to Compost mascotPeazy

Your exact price, in 5 questions

The quote is done online, price included, or over a call with our team.