MHR hotels in London hopes to reduce the time and effort to recycle food waste and reduce food waste collection bills with a new food separation technology called Vuala X1.

Founded by scientists and industry experts from the University of Cambridge, Vuala is a company working to make food waste recycling easy with its automatic food waste separation technology, the Vuala X1. Vuala's mission is to reduce 100 million tonnes of CO2 in 10 years.

The Vuala X1 is a bio-mechanical system, utilizing targeted micro-organisms together with specialised mechanical design, to automatically separate food waste from other wastes, turning them into raw material for biogas and hydrogen production within hours onsite. Vuala X1 allows food waste to be stored more than a month without smell, significantly delaying collection frequency, saving 95% labour and logistics while reducing 75% CO2 emission.

Starting at Copthorne Tara London Kensington for two weeks, Vuala X1 will progressively make its way around different MHR’s UK hotels as part of its trial.