Reasons to work with Agri-Cycle

“Agri-Cycle has been an instrumental partner in Hannaford sending no food waste to landfill across our footprint. Having a partner whose sole focus is food waste has been crucial to helping us accomplish this sustainability goal. Agri-Cycle truly focuses on highest use, educating our associates, and keeping things local.”

“Agri-Cycle’s integration into Amazon has been a standout success. Their tailored approach to our unique operations and commitment to extending food waste recycling across our sites is impressive. Holden’s leadership has been pivotal in this. He’s adeptly navigated our organizational complexities, ensuring solutions are effective regardless of site specifics.

Their model not only meets our current needs but is scalable for broader implementation. It’s been rewarding to work with a team so in tune with Amazon’s culture and so focused on creating sustainable solutions. Agri-Cycle’s impact at Amazon is significant and holds great promise for the future.”

“Agri-Cycle has been a vital partner to Vail Resorts on our path to achieving our sustainability goals. Not only do they provide reliable service to keep our food waste out of landfills, but they also add value to the partnership by providing things like in-person and online trainings, and even a tour of their facilities to ensure that our employees understand how to properly compost and the true importance of why we are doing it.”

“Working with the Agri-Cycle Energy team is easy and enjoyable. They are always available when needed and respond promptly to any requests or questions we have. When we’ve needed additional service, they have always been willing to make the extra visit to accommodate us.

As a nonprofit organization, we have limited resources and are always looking for the most cost-effective and efficient way to do our work. The professional team at Agri-Cycle worked with us to create an efficient pickup process that fits in with our busy schedule.

By working with Agri-Cycle, we can dispose of non-edible products in a safe, cost-effective manner and save more of our resources for our mission of ending hunger in Maine.

Thanks to Agri-Cycle Energy, the Food Bank is saving money and staff labor that we previously spent dealing with waste. This allows us to put our focus and more of our donors’ dollars into purchasing nutritious foods for people in need. Every dollar saved is a dollar that can provide 4 meals to a Maine family facing hunger!”

“I am pleased to offer this testimonial in support of Agri-Cycle, as a business partner for more than eight years. We have partnered with Agri-Cycle on this program which recovers nearly 6,000 tons of food waste per year and keeps this valuable material from going into landfills.

What began as a startup initiative with an uncertain future has become, through entrepreneurial effort, an impressive operation with a growing geographic footprint.

With an increasing number of commercial entities seeking to divert more of their food waste from landfills, Agri-Cycle is a valuable partner to move Maine forward in pushing as much of this material as possible further up the solid waste hierarchy. The partnership between ecomaine and Agri-Cycle works well to ensure the sustainability of Maine’s waste management systems.”

“The program is easy to follow and a win-win for our company as it is good from an environmental perspective and saves the company money versus putting the product in the landfill.”

“The Agri-Cycle team has worked diligently to understand internal Amazon processes and have made strides towards our shared goal of ensuring all Amazon sites in the United States have access to food waste recycling services.

By learning how Amazon works, its role-players, and becoming integrated with various teams, Agri-Cycle has presented a thorough roadmap of success to key Amazon leadership.

It has been a pleasure to work with Holden over the past 15 months. He’s a pragmatic, results-driven problem solver, who’s passionate about servicing the Amazon customers and creating sustainable change.”

“As someone who was involved in the original introduction of Amazon to Agri-Cycle, it has been amazing to see how Amazon has adopted Agri-Cycle’s services and standards in New England and parts of the United States.

At every turn, Holden has met the challenges posed to him in order to standardize and integrate Agri-Cycle services at Amazon sites regardless of size and service needs. I am confident that what they have created can be scaled and used across Amazon’s footprint if fully embraced by Amazon’s Global/National leadership like it has been by Regional Leaders and within various Business Orgs.

One of the most demanding aspects of providing services to Amazon is the lack of intersectionality of Orgs and Site types. Agri-Cycle has successfully created a model that creates continuity across the Amazon businesses that can be leveraged nationwide. Myself and countless others are very excited by the potential of that possibility.”

“While I was the Regional Environmental Manager for the SSD FC and SSD DC businesses, I worked with Holden to onboard all applicable sites that I oversaw using the three-tiered system designed by Agri-Cycle. The tiered framework presented by Agri-Cycle was easy to understand and execute.

As an Amazon REM, one of my biggest challenges is implementing new programs due to the large number of stakeholders and limited onsite support. Agri-Cycle has done a great job of standardizing resources for easy expansion throughout the United States.

Distributing the information to my sites and delegating to key role-players was easy; all I had to do was follow the playbook.”