Authentic Food Company partners with Convert2Green

The initiative involves Convert2Green collecting the waste oil from Authentic's Stockport based production site, and recycling it in to high quality bio-fuel, which reduces carbon emissions by up to 90%. Based in Middlewich, Cheshire, Convert2Green collects and recycles waste vegetable oil from across the food industry to produce a range of high quality bio-fuels for use in commercial vehicle fleets and to drive heat and power systems. It is one of the top five sustainable bio-fuel producers in the UK and produce the bio-diesel used by 3663 First For Food Service to fuel their delivery lorries. Speaking of the waste oil recycling initiative a spokesperson for Authentic said: "At the Authentic Food Company, Corporate Social Responsibility is an integral part of our philosophy and as such we are working to reduce carbon emissions, water use and the environmental and social costs associated with the domestic transportation of food. "Working on a waste oil to energy recycling initiative such as this enables us to achieve a number of our key environmental objectives as the oil is recycled into a range of bio-fuels which deliver a significant reduction in carbon emissions. "In addition Convert2Green provides us with a free, waste oil collection service, which is regular and reliable and means we save on waste disposal costs; it is a low carbon organisation running all of its production sites and vehicles on bio-fuel created from waste oil so the carbon saving passed through the supply chain is even greater." Convert2Green also works in partnership with other key clients in the food and hospitality industry, including Nando's Restaurants, Robinson's pubs and Cygnet Foods, to reduce their carbon emissions and cut costs.