For food manufacturers and producers, and the waste & recycling professionals who move it
Food Waste Compass
Anaerobic digestion estimates
Turn questions into estimates.
Turn estimates into informed decisions.
Try it free — three estimates, no payment details needed.
Estimates use clearly labelled demonstration factors — not for reporting.
A conversation worth having
Your next food-waste conversation starts here.
Better records, clearer insight, better informed decisions.
- Prospect
- “So, what service are you selling?”
- Sales
- “Anaerobic digestion.”
- Prospect
- “What’s that?”
- Sales
- “Turning your food waste into renewable gas.”
- Prospect
- “What type of gas? How much could my waste produce? And what’s the estimated carbon impact?”
- Sales
- “Let me show you…”
Opens Food Waste Compass.
Try it free: estimate a food loadWho it's for
For food manufacturers and producers — and the people who move the waste
Food Waste Compass turns one load into numbers you can put in front of your own team: the methane the food could produce, the fossil gas that methane could replace, and the carbon the journey to the anaerobic digestion plant adds.
Save each load as a dated record with its product and vehicle, so monthly and annual totals come from your own movements rather than a guess.
Food manufacturers and producers
Factories and production lines
Process, packing and over-run waste with a product label to work from.
Warehouses and distributors
Pallets, mixed loads and returns moving to an anaerobic digestion site.
Anyone keeping the record
Dated movements, frozen factor versions and PDF reports for your own reporting.
Waste management, brokers and receiving sites
Waste management companies
Size a load before collection and compare the journey to alternative sites.
Brokers
Show a producer what their load could produce, with the assumptions written down.
Receiving sites and anaerobic digestion plants
Give an incoming food load a rough methane figure before you discuss volumes.
Figures are estimates for your own records — not independently verified carbon savings.
How it works
From food product to anaerobic digestion
Built for people who handle waste every day. Plain language, sensible defaults and clear explanations at each step.
- 1
Identify the food
A representative nutrition label, with confirmed composition and units.
- 2
Measure the load
Food, packaging, vehicle and distance to the anaerobic digestion plant.
- 3
See scoped estimates
Rough methane potential, potential avoided fossil-gas emissions and separate transport carbon.
Transparent method
Fixed formulas and published factor sources. No AI-generated numbers.
Methane from the food label
Rough theoretical methane per tonne and per load, from fat, carbohydrate, protein and fibre.
Avoided fossil-gas emissions
An illustrative estimate of the fossil gas the methane could replace — never presented as a net saving.
Transport kept separate
One-way tonne-km emissions using published UK vehicle factors, shown as emissions added — not a saving.
Transport carbon comparison
Compare one-way transport carbon from one load to alternative anaerobic digestion sites.
With a free account
Save assessments, track monthly and annual totals, and produce branded PDF reports with frozen factor versions.
Honest comparisons, not green claims
Anaerobic digestion is not automatically carbon negative. Food Waste Compass keeps methane potential, transport and potential avoided fossil-gas emissions separate; these estimates are not net carbon savings.