Ramco: Circular Economy Services for Foodservice
Sourcing food locally, avoiding single use plastics and reducing food waste – sustainability is one of the key trends for catering and hospitality businesses. But what about the equipment the food is mixed, packed, and served in? Here’s why adopting a circular economy approach should be at the top of your agenda.
The journey towards a more sustainable industry has already started, but how can hospitality and catering businesses make sure they stay on track? Shifting from a linear to a circular economy approach is an important step. Days of time and consideration go into procuring items, but it takes minutes to throw something away. Businesses must adopt a more environmentally friendly mindset when it comes to the responsibility of their assets.
For the food sector, this means having a look around the kitchen and understanding the value that equipment has. Instead of sending surplus items to landfill, fully functioning but unwanted items could get a new lease of life elsewhere.
That’s where Ramco comes in: the reuse expert and auction house is here to drive change and help catering and hospitality businesses find new homes for their surplus assets.
Paul Fieldhouse, Foodservice business development consultant, comments: “A lot of equipment ends up in landfill because businesses don’t know about its value, and it seems like an easy option to send it to waste.
“Ramco is here to change that mindset, raise awareness around the value of surplus kitchen items and extend product lifecycles. Because end of lease doesn’t mean end of life.”
With over 27 years of experience working with organisations across all sectors and for clients such as Catercall and Mitchells & Butlers, Ramco knows how to find new homes for unwanted catering equipment and machinery, contributing to the circular economy.
But what are the benefits for businesses? Aside from protecting the environment and reducing your carbon footprint, using Ramco’s services helps to free up storage space and generate financial return.
Ramco’s value finder tool gives an overview of the kind of assets the auction house has found a home for in the past – from a combi oven to a double refrigerator and twin tank fryer. It also shows the financial return that was generated, and the carbon emissions that were saved by re-selling these assets and extending the lifespan.
Talking about financial return – research conducted by Ramco revealed there’s £59 billion worth of perfectly good equipment sitting idle in organisations across the country. That’s an average of around £10,000 per organisation.
Do you have equipment sitting idle? Contact the Ramco team here to start a conversation about finding value in your surplus assets.
Church Road South, Skegness, Lincolnshire PE25 3RS
Head Office: +44 (0)1754 880880
Business Development +44 (0)1754 882212
Surplus Equipment Sales/Auctions – sales@ramco.co.uk
Asset Disposal – businessdevelopment@ramco.co.uk
