Food & Beverage Waste Solutions
When you’re dealing with waste, cost is not your only challenge.
Our Farm Powered Solution
What We Do
End-to-End Waste Management
We provide food and beverage manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, cold storage facilities, institutions, pet food manufacturers, and other organic waste generators with a customized materials management program. As we continue to build our footprint of Farm Powered anaerobic digesters across the country, our team of experts will work with you today to manage your packaged waste, manufacturing byproducts, and event-based waste streams and divert them to the most beneficial destination. As our facilities become operational, we will then seamlessly transition your materials to our digesters.
Benefits
Your Food Waste Always Goes to the Most Sustainable End Use
For more than a decade, we’ve worked with clients to develop holistic waste management solutions that ensure all materials are recycled into renewable energy at a Farm Powered anaerobic digester near your facility. In areas where we don’t yet have facilities, we’ll find the most value-driven waste solution available.
Reliable, Customized Materials Management Logistics
We can service you through our own network of strategic partners and haulers or work with your current providers. We are also fully equipped to handle any emergency situations you may encounter from events like product recalls or natural disasters.
Zero Waste to Landfill
With Vanguard Renewables, you'll always know where your waste is going and how it benefits your company, local farms, and the environment. We will never send your organic waste to a landfill.
Depackaging Food and Beverage Waste
Pre‑processing Packaged Waste
Vanguard Renewables' advanced Organics Receiving Areas depackage and pre‑process expired goods, off‑spec batches, or unsafe to eat food and beverage products.
Our Organics Receiving Area in Agawam, MA is fully licensed and bonded at the state and federal level to receive unsalable alcohol products for certified destruction, allowing us to sustainably destroy alcohol shipments* "in bond," and allowing breweries and distilleries to reclaim paid Federal Excise Taxes.
*excluding wine
Recycling Food and Beverage Waste
The extracted food waste is recycled at a Farm Powered anaerobic digester, where it is combined with farm waste and converted into renewable energy. Some waste streams are able to skip pre-processing and enter the anaerobic digester directly.
Why Vanguard Renewables?
We'll transform your waste into a force for good. Our advantages include:
- Single-source solution for food and beverage waste management
- Solid track record of managing waste for clients such as Cabot Creamery and Polar Beverages since 2014
- Create circularity by fueling your operations with the renewable natural gas captured from your waste
- Supporting American farmers and their communities
We Put Safety First
The safety of our employees is our greatest responsibility, so we demand constant vigilance to ensure a safe and healthy workplace. With safety as a core value, we nurture a culture that protects our employees, visitors, and everyone who calls the areas around our work sites “home.”
