The Full Package Bin

The Full Package Bin

Our Full Package bins are designed to encourage customers to dispose of packaging and food waste in the correct bin. We've partnered with The First Mile in London to roll out a network of bins across London collecting both food waste and compostable packaging. We're working to partner with more waste management companies around the country in 2020. Compostable packaging can easily be collected and composted by The First Mile throughout London. Plastic Recycling is a broken linear economy. For a long time, our economy has been ‘linear’. This means that raw materials are used to make a product, and after its use, any waste (e.g. packaging) is disposed of in landfill or incinerated. Compostable packaging waste can integrate into the organic waste system producing nutrient-rich fertiliser from the composting process. We’ve partnered with First Mile to collect and compost everything from decent cups, cutlery to decent takeaway lunch boxes. The packaging is put into an autoclave which is similar to a very high-temperature pressure cooker. This process expedites the breaking down of the compostable packaging materials, and then these materials go through the standard Anaerobic Digestion process (usually used for food), which produces fertiliser, and the methane produced during the decomposition process is burned to produce green energy.