BioteCH4 contracted to recycle Lincolnshire food waste
Anaerobic Digestion operator partners with Lincolnshire County Council to capture 50,000 tonnes of food waste from households and businesses.
BioteCH4 has secured a tender with Lincolnshire County Council to provide waste recycling services across the Lincolnshire districts.
By March 2026, all county councils will be required to provide weekly food waste collection as part of the UK government’s Simpler Recycling scheme. In preparation for this, Lincolnshire have contracted Anaerobic Digestion (AD) operating company, BioteCH4, to recycle household and business food waste.
Pamela Woolcock, Group Public Sector Lead for BioteCH4, commented: “Although the Simpler Recycling journey has been long, we are nearing the finish line. We are thrilled to now be partnered with Lincolnshire County Council with a year to work on perfecting the implementation plans before we kick-off in September 2025.
“We’re delighted Lincolnshire have taken the step of introducing their food waste collections so soon and we’d urge other local authorities currently looking at their procurement to speak to operators and get the ball rolling as soon as is feasible.”
Beginning in Autumn 2025, BioteCH4 will carry out daily collections of food waste from a network of six transfer stations to their AD plant in Hemswell. The contract, spanning up to nine years, aims to capture 50,000 tonnes of food waste annually from both residential and commercial sources.
BioteCH4's AD technology, which handled over 600,000 tonnes of food waste in 2023 and generated around 296,000 MWh of energy, converts greenhouse gases captured from the waste into biogas and renewable energy. The energy is then fed back into the National Grid, while the digestate by-product is utilised as a fertiliser.
Discussing the next steps of the partnership, acting head of waste at Lincolnshire County Council, Chris Yorston, said: “Having secured our treatment solution, we can now focus – with our district council partners and BioteCH4 – on designing, procuring, and implementing the other elements of our food waste collection service. We are looking forward to bringing all our knowledge and experience together to bring food waste recycling to households across the county.” 
