Reducing Waste With Zumex: How Our Machines Help Keep the Seas Clean

One of the biggest environmental challenges oceans and marine wildlife face is plastic pollution and poorly managed waste. From trash to plastic bottles, and straws that introduce pollutants and microplastics into the oceans and waterways. This isn’t just a matter of sustainability, as waste harms and kills marine wildlife and microplastics end up in our water and food supply.

At Zumex, we believe that every small effort adds up, empowering food service businesses to make a meaningful impact. We design our technology to reduce waste by extracting as much juice as possible and utilizing eco-design and energy-efficient components. Beyond our internal commitment to the ecosystem, we support the advancement of bioplastics made from orange peels!  

The global plastics waste challenge

Looking for a way to drastically reduce plastics in your supply chain and internal operations? There’s still room for improvement, but single-use plastics are no longer the only option for supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, cafés, juice bars, and food suppliers that serve juice.

Before

Ordering juice in single-use containers was the only option for meeting the food industry’s high-volume needs. A small percentage of plastic bottles and juice packaging was recyclable or biodegradable, and most were designed for single-use. Plastics ended up in oceans degrading the marine ecosystem, or in landfills taking between 20 and 450 years to decompose.

How long plastic beverage packaging takes to decompose:

• Plastic straws: 200 years
• 6-pack plastic rings: 400 years
• Plastic beverage bottles: 450 years
• Plastic cups: 450 years

Now

Businesses across every sector of the food industry can freshly squeeze delicious and nutritious juice on-site with minimal impact on their labor line. Juice into reusable jugs for breakfast or all-day OJ, and serve single servings in reusable drinkware, glass bottles, recyclable plastic, or biodegradable bioplastics.

You don’t have to choose between quality and sustainability

With Zumex, there’s no choice between quality juice or sustainability—you can have both! Our machines don’t just squeeze juice, they create energy-efficient, waste-reducing operations that support a cleaner future for everyone.

Zumex: Your partner in sustainability

We align with food industry businesses whose mission includes healthy, fresh, premium, and sustainable food service. Health-conscious consumers are often environmentally-conscious consumers. As such, companies commit to sustainable packaging and business processes to meet both company objectives and consumer expectations.

With Zumex you can:

• Eliminate single-use plastics: Offer freshly squeezed juice that isn’t served in single-use plastic. Select what type of beverage container you serve your juice in. From reusable drinkware to bioplastics and recyclable glass bottles.
• Minimize logistics carbon footprint: Minimize shipping and transportation by sourcing as much of your produce locally as you can. When produce is shipped, it has fewer stops and requires less packaging when it arrives to you as whole fruits and vegetables.
• Support rainforests: Source exotic and international produce from fair-trade suppliers that preserve rainforests and provide quality jobs for local farmers and communities.
• Upcycle produce pulp: Use fruit and vegetable pulp for standard compost, compost tea, biogas, orange peel microplastics, and upcycled baked goods, dog treats, soups, sauces, and other food products.

Our role in the circular economy

Zumex prioritizes eco-design when manufacturing our innovative technology. We utilize durable materials, maximize juice extraction, and reduce energy consumption. We’ve also partnered with Lowpoly as part of our Open Innovation and Circularity strategy. Lowpoly is a startup dedicated to creating viable products from orange peel microplastics!  

We urge you to explore B2B partnerships with food and product manufacturers that upcycle pulp. This achieves zero food waste for your juice line items and secures a secondary revenue stream.  

We’re in this together!

We can’t rely solely on governments to regulate environmental consciousness; we must play a role as corporate citizens. Reducing your reliance on plastics, reduces waste in landfills, oceans, and waterways. How you use your produce pulp can drive innovation in upcycling food waste to support clean energy, eco-design, and innovative new food products.

Join the change!

Whether you’re a small boutique hotel, local grocer, or local or nationwide restaurant or juice bar, your efforts to reduce food waste drive positive change.

Reach out to learn how Zumex machines help you deliver fresh, delicious juices while reducing waste and helping to keep the oceans clean. Squeeze sustainability, squeeze the future!