Organic recycling company Denali has announced that ReCirculate – its compost product sold in bags that can be ‘de-packaged’ – is available for purchase at over 100 Walmart locations across eight southern states in the US.
Denali partners with retailers to leverage their unsalable food with its ‘de-packaging’ technology, which apparently separates organic food from its packaging and transforms it into a clean stream of materials that are converted into products such as compost, soil, fertilizer and renewable energy. The process aims to streamline the de-packaging process for retailers while keeping unsold food out of landfills.
Packaged in one-cubic-foot bags, ReCirculate is expected to be available in more than 600 Walmart stores nationwide by April, coinciding with start of the spring planting season.
“The ReCirculate product is a perfect example of Walmart’s circular business models and how we make the most of our resources,” said RJ Zanes, Walmart VP of Facility Services. “We’re taking unsalable merchandise and repurposing it into a different product we can sell on our shelves – benefitting our business, our customers, and the planet.”
“At Denali, we’re on a mission to harness the potential of organic waste and ReCirculate is an example of how we can do that,” said Eric Speiser, Denali’s chief revenue officer. “ReCirculate will leverage the nutrients in organic food waste to help build sustainable green spaces, landscaping, gardens, flower beds and more, all while powering a fully circular economy.”
In similar news, the company worked with HelloFresh last year to recover ‘nearly 4 million pounds’ of its food scraps, then repurpose it into compost and animal feed. Denali’s machinery is designed to cleanly and mechanically separate cardboard, plastic, and other packaging from food that cannot be placed in HelloFresh meal kits due to quality issues or being too close to their expiration dates.
In November 2024, flexible packaging specialist Parkside developed new packaging for Bird & Blend’s loose tea bag portfolio, said to offer optimal barrier performance as well as being fully compostable. Made from bio-based paper and metallicized NatureFlex cellulose films from Futamura, the teabags are apparently manufactured from sustainably sourced wood pulp.
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