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A college at the forefront

Le Collège Voltaire de Remoulins qui accueille un peu plus de 600 élèves s’est lancé en janvier 2022 dans un projet de reconstruction en commençant tout d’abord par les bâtiments d’enseignement, les locaux administratifs et le restaurant scolaire. Fin 2022, ce sont les nouveaux plateaux sportifs et le Centre de Documentation et d’Information qui verront le jour.

This project is part of an overall environmental approach, with the school having chosen bio-sourced materials (stone, wood...) and wishing not only to ensure that the standards inherent in the construction of new buildings are perfectly respected, but also that the regulations in force concerning the sorting of bio-waste generated by its school restaurant are applied in accordance with them, in order to create a virtuous circuit enabling the recycling of waste.

The company BONNET THIRODE Grande Cuisine, a manufacturer, installer, designer and maintainer of large-scale kitchen equipment, was entrusted with this challenge and chose to place its trust in VALIDEX, a company with thirty years' experience in food waste processing.

So we came up with a product that met the needs of the college and ensured its compliance with ever more stringent environmental requirements: BIODEC+, the new generation of the BIODEC range.

BIODEC+ is an integrated, easy-to-use, robust and cost-effective solution for:
- Collect biowaste directly where it is produced: in this case the self-service restaurant (see photo) and the waste room for leftovers from the gastro bins, i.e. two collection points providing the school with a global solution for 100% of its food waste.
- Pre-treat them with fine, controlled grinding
- Transport them without human intervention to a 3000-litre storage tank
- Store in optimal hygienic conditions before recovery by pump truck

Satisfied with its smooth operation, the head chef at Voltaire secondary school, Madame MONBEL, gave us her feedback after several months of use: “We're delighted with our BIODEC+! It saves us an enormous amount of time, and significantly improves working conditions for our staff: we no longer use garbage can containers, so there's less need to move around, and we can maintain optimum hygiene conditions. It's quite an evolution that we approve of 100%!