Food Waste Recycling for Animal Feed
Confection and candy manufacturing represents one of the most dynamic areas for innovation in commercial food waste management, offering ample opportunities for diverting food waste to animal feed in groundbreaking new ways. At the forefront of the industry’s most innovative and sustainable food waste systems is Green Field Solutions. At GFS, our novel solutions empower chocolate producers, candy makers, and snack brands to not only manage, but also capitalize on their organic by-products, mixed recyclables, and solid waste.
We help our clients reframe their production food waste and recyclables from afterthoughts to assets, giving their waste streams an upgrade from a cost to manage to a measurable value. The results are proof that sustainability and efficiency can absolutely be operational companions.
Food Waste Management Solutions
From facility assessments to continuous operational support, Green Field Solutions equips confectioners to turn their overlooked waste streams into profitable resources. Our end-to-end, recycling and food waste management programs divert food waste to animal feed and turn refuse into revenue, while advancing your sustainability goals.
AUDIT – From corporate-wide insights to facility-specific data, our waste stream mapping provides unparalleled transparency into the current state of your company’s various outputs and a basis for maximizing their value.
MANAGE – As a one-stop-shop for confectioners’s recycling and waste stream management, GFS simplifies a patchwork of reliable recyclers, haulers, and brokers with a single, accountable partner.
REPORT – Data integration is an important part of turning refuse into revenue. Tracking material handling data, financial information, and other metrics across facilities or lines delivers measurable ROIs, ensures compliance, safeguards your brand, and informs sustainability efforts. Get the portal.
Food Waste Systems
The sweets and snacks industry is at a turning point. Sustainability regulations, consumer expectations, and cost pressures are redefining how businesses operate. The confectioners with food waste systems that are designed with intent are inevitably the most efficient, most sustainable and most effective.
GFS’s work across candy, chocolate, and snack facilities shows that the future of sweet manufacturing isn’t just about flavor. Every pound of sugar salvaged, cocoa recovered, or cookie crumb diverted from the landfill strengthens your operation, your margins and your brand. Ready to rethink your waste strategy? Get in touch.
Sugar - Too Sweet to Toss
Each year, GFS manages tens of millions of pounds of excess sugar and candy. Recognizing the value of sweet candy co-products allows confectioners to create long-term value by diverting nutrient-dense organic production waste from costly landfill or land-spread challenge to profitable opportunity.
Chocolate - From Factory to Feed
At GFS, our animal nutritionists develop healthy, innovative feed ingredients that transform millions of pounds of chocolate co-products into livestock feed ingredients every year. Companies are transforming their once landfill-bound chocolate waste from end of life to new markets and mouths to feed.
Cookies - A Circular Economy
More than 110,000,000 pounds of cookies are upcycled into nutritious and delicious ingredients for piglets to pig out on at GFS every year. Those tasty baked goods become part the circular economy model, feeding the farm animals that put protein on our plates.
S'Mores - The Super Upcyclers
In addition to supplementing piglet diets with tasty and nutritious chocolate and cookie co-products, GFS handles 4.5 million pounds of fluffy marshmallows every year, making the almighty s'more a super upcycler.
Recycling - One Sweet Solution
GFS helps its clients recover more than 10 million pounds of mixed recyclables every year, working with sweets and snacks brands to address both organic and packaging waste. Our sweet solves can look like streamlining a facility's collection routes, implementing brand-safe disposal options, identifying opportunities for recycling improvement, or discovering new markets for sugary by-products.
Ready to Rethink Your Waste Strategy?
If your cookie, confection or chocolate facility is still dealing with fragmented waste processes or outdated recycling programs, there’s untapped opportunity waiting. Partnering with GFS means building a system that’s data-driven, secure, and designed for growth, so you can focus on making what you do best: world-class confections. Get in touch.