Residue decision support for Irish food and drink manufacturers
Find the best destination for every residue.
Cirqular helps food and drink manufacturers compare destinations for organic residues across cost, resource value, emissions and logistics.
Explore a complete example site in the workspace. No login or upload needed. Or discuss a pilot by email
Regulatory requirements, facility approvals and material compatibility are checked automatically as part of every comparison.
- Residue analysisProfiles built from invoices and spreadsheets
- Destination matchingRequirements checked before anything is scored
- Savings opportunitiesRecommended routes against today’s cost
- Environmental impactResource value and direct emissions, estimated
- Reporting and analyticsEvery figure labelled with its source
The problem
Finding somewhere to send a residue is easy. Finding the best destination isn’t.
The information exists, but it is scattered — and comparing it takes time most teams don’t have. So most businesses default to whatever route their existing contractor offers.
What a manufacturer has to piece together today
- DAFM approval listsApproved animal by-product plants
- EPA informationLicences and by-product notifications
- NWCPO permit dataPermitted waste collectors
- Facility operatorsCapacity and gate fees
- Contractor quotesPrices for individual routes
Cirqular brings these into one side-by-side comparison.
Who it’s for
Irish food and drink manufacturers with residues to place.
Bakeries, dairies, meat and beverage processors and prepared-food sites, typically with several organic residue streams and more than one contractor. Cirqular gives each team the part of the decision it owns.
Operations and site managers
One view of every residue stream on site: where each goes today, what a better route would be, and what has to be confirmed before switching.
Finance and procurement
Gate fees, haulage and revenue compared like for like, with each saving marked as quoted or estimated before anyone relies on it.
Sustainability leads
Higher-value uses for each material and direct emissions estimated per route, with every source and limit stated for reporting.
Why Cirqular
Better decisions. More value. Less waste.
Commercial opportunity, practical feasibility and environmental impact, in one comparison for every residue stream.
Lower treatment and haulage costs
Gate fees, haulage and any revenue for every suitable destination, set against what you pay today.
More value from each residue
See where a residue could move up the resource-value hierarchy, from disposal and digestion towards feed and redistribution.
Shorter, more practical logistics
Distance, collection and capacity are part of every comparison, so a route is workable as well as cheaper.
Environmental impact, honestly estimated
Direct treatment and transport emissions for each route, with the factors and their limits stated, never presented as certified savings.
Clearer sustainability reporting
Every figure carries its source — measured, quoted, estimated or example — and exports to CSV or print.
Requirements checked automatically
Regulatory requirements, facility approvals and material compatibility are checked before anything is scored.
How it works
From scattered residue data to a clear recommendation.
AI assists with reading documents and interpreting the input; it never decides eligibility. Requirements are checked by fixed rules on the structured profile, so every outcome can be traced. In this public version, AI document reading runs in a labelled demonstration mode; spreadsheets are read for real.
Understand
Reads invoices, spreadsheets and transfer notes, and builds a structured material profile. You confirm only what it can’t infer with confidence.
Output: Material profile
Match
Identifies compatible destinations, facilities and collection options for that material.
Output: Candidate destinations
Evaluate
Checks requirements with fixed, auditable rules, then compares cost, carbon, distance, capacity and material fit. Options that fail a requirement are never scored.
Output: Suitable · Needs confirmation · Unavailable
Optimise
Ranks the suitable options with the transparent Cirqular Score, under weights you can see and change.
Output: Ranked options
Report
Shows the recommended route next to today’s, with alternatives, the estimated saving and the environmental impact.
Output: Decision report
The result
See the decision, not just the score.
Each residue stream gets a decision report that a site manager, a finance lead and an auditor can all read the same way.
Recommended route next to today’s
Change, keep, or say what’s missing, decided by fixed rules rather than by whichever option ranks first.
Estimated saving and break-even
Annual cost against the current arrangement, and how far prices could move before the decision flips.
Requirements it passed
Approvals, material compatibility, capacity and collection, checked before anything is scored.
Why the alternatives rank lower
Every suitable destination compared on one measure, with the reason each falls behind.
Emissions, honestly scoped
Direct emissions compared only where routes are like for like, with every factor and limit stated.
A source on every figure
Quoted, estimated or model assumption, so nobody relies on a number without knowing where it came from.
See real reports for a complete example site. No login needed.
Independence
No preferred destination.
A transparent comparison.
Cirqular is built to be independent of the facilities and collectors it compares: a destination ranks first only because of the figures and priorities you can see.
- No destination pays to be listed or ranked
- Every weight, assumption and data source visible
- Requirements checked by fixed, auditable rules
- Uncertainty stated, not hidden
Pilot Cirqular on your own residues.
We’re looking for Irish food and drink manufacturers to pilot Cirqular on real residue streams. Email us about your site and we’ll arrange a call.
Not ready yet? Try interactive demo or analyse a residue.