How do you close the loop on a city’s food waste?Waste management and resource recovery at Sydney Markets

THE CHALLENGE

Each day thousands of buyers – greengrocers, supermarkets, florists, food processors, restaurants

and other food service outlets, purchase fresh produce through Sydney Markets.

Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week a seamless on-site waste management solution was needed to showcase Sydney Market’s world

class operations.

Sydney Markets on-site waste management and resource recovery

THE SOLUTION

Sydney

Veolia implemented an on-site waste management and resource recovery solution.

This includes:

• Designated on-site sorting area to enable more effective waste management

• Dedicated organics collection

• Cardboard collection from across entire site seven days per week

• Introduction of a polystyrene extruder

HOW WE DO ITClosing the loop on waste management and resource

recovery with integrated on-site operations.

Our customised solutions include:

LANDFILL WASTE TO ENERGY SOLUTIONS

ORGANICS AND GREEN WASTE COLLECTION

WASTE MANAGEMENT

REPORTING

RESOURCE RECOVERY

• Organic waste is transported to an anaerobic digester facility where waste is turned into green energy and fertiliser

• Polystyrene recycling on-site has resulted in 50 tonnes of polystyrene collected and recycled annually; equivalent to 500 truck loads

• Over 1,400 tonnes of cardboard recycled each year, resulting in savings of $430K p.a. compared to landfill cost

• General Waste collected from the site has contributed 1800 megawatt hours of renewable energy through waste processing at Veolia’s Woodlawn Bioreactor; equivalent to powering 247 homes for one year

THE OUTCOME

To find out how Veolia’s world of plug-ins can help your business visit:

veolia.com.au/integratedbydesign