No povertyTarget 1.1 · end extreme poverty
- The compost
- Compost made from food waste is a product, and it can be sold. Selling suitable compost can support income-generating community projects.
Impact · Certified B Corporation
One machine in one kitchen, and everything that follows from it.
MAEKO treats food waste in the building that made it. This page is about what happens next: the compost, the emissions it can help reduce, and the people it reaches.
Certified B Corporation
Checked by people who do not work here.
B Corp certification is an independent assessment, by B Lab, of a company’s social and environmental performance. It looks at how the company is governed, and at how it treats its workers, its community, the environment and its customers. MAEKO holds it.
01Governance
02Workers
03Community
04Environment
05Customers
The scale it works at
200
Installed sites, local and international — all still running
19,000TONNES
Food waste treated since 2015
66–85%
Less greenhouse gas than landfill, composting one tonne a daymeasured by SIRIM — the figure varies by model
Certifications
Credentials, and what they cover.
Product marks, testing, procurement schemes and company credentials have different scopes. Match the credential to the exact model or service you are specifying.
The machine and its output
Product standards and testing. These are what a specifier or a compliance team asks to see.
Green building and procurement
Schemes a building or a buyer can claim points and preference under.
selected models
may contribute points
The company
Awarded to MAEKO the business, not to any one machine.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals
Seven of the seventeen goals, and what we do for each.
The United Nations set seventeen goals for 2030. Our machines, the compost they make and the MAEKO Academy support seven of them. Each tile gives the goal, the target it names, and what we actually do.
No poverty
Zero hungerTarget 2.4 · sustainable food production, resilient farming
- The machine
- A fast composting process for farm waste, and composters sized for community and urban farms. A farm can return compost to its growing beds.
- The compost
- It goes back into the soil as bio-organic compost. It can improve soil structure and support plant growth when applied appropriately.
Sustainable cities and communitiesTarget 11.6 · reduce the environmental impact of cities, waste included
- The machine
- Food waste treated on site, in the city that made it. The machines fit schools, housing, markets, food courts and other city facilities. Treating accepted food waste locally reduces the amount sent to landfill.
Responsible consumption and productionTargets 12.4, 12.5 and 12.3 · manage waste safely, make less of it, halve food waste
- The machine
- Treating separated food waste on site supports responsible waste management and resource recovery.
- The compost
- Food waste is recycled into nutrient-rich compost and used again, as a soil enhancer.
- The Academy
- MAEKO food-waste awareness programmes teach students and communities practical ways to reduce, recycle and reuse.
Climate actionTargets 13.2 and 13.3 · climate measures in planning; knowledge and skills
- The machine
- Composting food waste with air, instead of burying it, makes far less greenhouse gas. Between 66 and 85 per cent less than landfill, measured in a SIRIM Life Cycle Inventory Analysis; the figure varies by model. Food waste rotting in landfill helps warm the planet; treating it at the source is a practical way for a country to cut its carbon.
- The Academy
- The awareness programme gives students and communities the knowledge and the skills to do something about climate change, and to adapt to it.
Life on landTarget 15.3 · restore degraded land and soil
- The compost
- Appropriate compost application can help improve degraded soil. It returns nutrients, organic matter and useful microbes to the ground.
Partnerships for the goalsTargets · a stronger global partnership; effective partnerships across public, private and civil society
- The machine
- Green technology, built in Malaysia, for the sustainability practice the world now needs and the practical ways to cut emissions.
- The Academy
- Academy programmes bring several partners together at once: NGOs, communities, companies and local councils, on programmes that support the goals.
In the community
Awareness programmes, so that a habit changes.
Run by MAEKO Academy, for neighbourhoods and for the young. Three of them come to where people already are.
Composting-on-Wheels
A composting truck comes to the neighbourhood. People bring their food waste and take compost home.
Composting container
A whole composting unit in a container, taken to an event and opened up, with a demonstration running on site.
Composting workshops
Hands-on sessions for schools, staff and community groups: sorting food waste, composting it, and planting with what it makes.
Where the machines are
Two hundred sites. Here are some of them.
Examples from Malaysia and overseas, grouped by sector. These sites show the range of settings where MAEKO machines are installed.
A shopping mall
A CW500 composter, running since 2021. Less greenhouse gas, lower waste-management and pest-control costs, and a CSR programme built around it.
A convention centre
A composting machine since 2017. Less greenhouse gas, lower waste-management and pest-control costs, and compost for the staff and the landscapers.
A corporate group
One green initiative across a mall, a hotel, a medical centre and a university. Compost used on site and sold, savings on disposal, and a staff campaign to compost and plant.
Government hospitals
MAEKO composters have been installed at seven government hospitals.
A factory canteen
Canteen food waste has been composted on site since 2019, with the compost used for landscaping.
A training institute
An oil-and-gas training institute adopted a MAEKO machine, and built it a house of its own.
Islands
Composting on Pulau Redang and Pulau Perhentian: jobs for local people, compost for the landscaping, and less CO2‑equivalent.
Overseas
A one-tonne composter installed overseas, and a two-tonne composter in the Maldives.
Offshore
Composters on vessels off Labuan.
An oil major
A corporate direction of zero food waste to landfill, met on site with MAEKO composters.
Next step
Your kitchen could be on this page.
Tell us about your site, the food waste it produces and your current collection arrangement. We can help you plan the measurements needed to choose a machine.