Composting source separated food waste for small municipalities, restaurants and housing areas

Small scale composting solutions makes it possible to compost it nearby without transporting the food waste long distances to large composting plants. Our Big Hanna composters are used in many countries and in different setups. The flexibility of Big Hanna composter’s makes it possible for a small municipality to meet the new EU legislation coming in to force, 31th of December 2023, that says that the food waste needs to be separated at source.

We believe in giving back the power to choose the best system to where the system is going to be implemented. We believe that decentralized solutions are the best way to make our world sustainable. Our flexible small scale systems allow you to control the input and by that the quality of the compost.

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24 years of composting food waste from 26 flats

For 24 years the residents in a housing area in a small fishing village on the Swedish west coast called Grebbestad, have composted their food waste with a Big Hanna composter. This Big Hanna was installed in 1994 and is the first generation of our model T40. In this tenant’s association there are 26 flats. The residential area consists of a few houses with apartments and the others are semi-detached houses. In the beginning all residents were very active and composted their food waste. After about 10 years the interest cooled down and only a few composted their food waste. Today when talking to the caretaker Ann-Katrin, she tells us that there has been a change in mindset again and today all residents are separating the food waste in their kitchen and brings it to the Big Hanna. They put the food waste into the composter themselves and when adding the food waste everyone also add a small amount of sawdust pellets. Ann-Katrin is the caretaker and she mainly keeps the area around the composter clean and empties the compost into the maturation box when needed.

The residents use the compost in their gardens. The maturation box is full in the early spring but end of spring it is all empty when everyone has taken the compost and used it in their gardens. The same happens in the autumn – the maturation box is full in the early autumn but when everyone has added the compost in their garden to improve their soil the maturation box is empty.

This is a fantastic example of practicing circular economy for many many years. 

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Composting food waste in a housing area

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