ShurGreen Organic Recycling featured in Food & Beverage Review, November 2024.
The food and beverage industry discards tons of products daily due to quality issues, expired shelf life, or packaging defects. This situation places businesses in a critical position, needing to recycle waste while balancing the rising demand for sustainability with the need for profitability.
That’s where ShurGreen comes to the rescue. Experts in commercial organic waste recycling, the company collects and converts organic waste into valuable assets.
“We offer innovative organic recycling solutions to national food companies, taking a multifaceted approach to exploring all possible reuse options,” says Rick Kremer, owner of ShurGreen.
The company analyzes and breaks down unused human and pet food into proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, which allows them to understand the nutritional value. ShurGreen then transforms these into high-fat, high-protein diets for livestock and crop nutrients. Their team of nutritionists evaluates various waste streams and creates balanced feed products with the optimal mix of nutrition. Experts in repurposing everything from steaks to potatoes to pet food and beyond, ShurGreen’s permitted renderer status, allows them to combine meat proteins with grains or bakery products to create a nutritional feed for poultry and swine customers.
ShurGreen offers certified product destruction that protects customer brand while limiting customer liability in the marketplace. This includes any non-hazardous organic liquids, solids, and packaging. ShurGreen and their trusted partners process product with a proven chain of custody and certification of destruction for your records at the conclusion of the process.
Addressing all essential aspects of the waste management process, ShurGreen undertakes all tasks, from collaborating with national waste management companies to managing logistics, enabling companies to achieve landfill-free goals. This unburdens businesses from the complexities of waste disposal, allowing them to focus on their operations while effectively meeting sustainability goals.
A key aspect that gives ShurGreen a competitive advantage is its dedication to safety and cleanliness during the waste management process, addressing biosecurity challenges. In light of avian influenza affecting poultry markets, the company provided clients with dedicated plastic totes and trailers for waste collection. These totes undergo sanitation via an automated washing system before being returned to the plant, ensuring high hygiene standards are maintained. Its focus on biosecurity extends to waste streams of food plants, ensuring thorough pathogen kills through rotary kilns in compliance with USDA standards and feed retested by third-party labs.
ShurGreen is also building dedicated truck washes to sanitize the exterior and undercarriage of every truck, ensuring in-depth cleanliness before the trucks return to service.
Apart from processing organic waste, ShurGreen is EPA permitted to treat organic wastewater from various sources, including DAF sludges from municipal and industrial plants. The company converts these wastewaters into renewable energy using digesters located nationwide or transforms them into nutrient-rich fertilizers for agricultural use.
ShurGreen boasts multiple satisfied customers in pet food, beverage, dairy, and countless other industries. These clients often praise ShurGreen’s in-depth knowledge of waste management as well as rebate programs that offer value for waste. It also supports businesses in tax reclamation, providing economic benefits and aiding sustainability objectives. In addition, ShurGreen provides certificates of destruction to ensure packaged goods from major food packagers do not surface in secondary markets, protecting the client’s brand. The company offers video documentation and issuance of $5 million liability certificates along with pollution insurance for its transportation equipment.
ShurGreen’s location in West Central Ohio allows it to efficiently serve a significant portion of the U.S. population. Today, they are actively exploring expansion into the Southeast and Midwest to better serve their growing client base, including a waste-to-energy system to incinerate packaging for thermal energy recovery.
Driven by strong business acumen and expertise in agricultural production, this family-owned company provides a deeper understanding of industry dynamics than players solely focused on waste management. This distinct perspective, combined with ShurGreen’s passion for crafting cutting-edge organic recycling solutions, empowers businesses in their pursuit of a sustainable and greener future.
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