food waste collection Articles
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Glasgow Clyde College - Case Study
Glasgow Clyde College is a multi-campus college with three sites in Anniesland, Cardonald and Langside. One of Scotland’s largest further education institutions, the College was formed in August 2013 following the merger of Anniesland, Cardonald and Langside Colleges. Home to over 7,000 full-time students and 20,000 part-time students, the modern state of the art facilities deliver truly ...
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Looking Ahead to the UK’s 2023 Separate Food Waste Collections
Food waste has always been a hot topic in the waste and recycling industry, but never more so than over the last couple of years, since the UK government outlined – in its 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy – its plans to introduce separate food waste collections for all households and businesses. And as we head into 2021, there’s no shying away from the fact that this deadline ...
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A spotlight on the future of food waste
With the Government recently committing to separate food waste collections in its spending review, this waste stream is back in full view on the national agenda. Our resident composting expert, Huw Crampton, recently shared his thoughts with Skip Hire & Waste Magazine on the role legislation, decentralised solutions, and composting all play in helping the UK to manage its food waste ...
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Tidy Planet hits the BBC with inspiring food waste project in France
You may or may not have seen that we were recently featured in a BBC News video for the work we’re carrying out with Paris-based social enterprise – and one of our French distributors – Les Alchimistes… Earlier in the year, our director James Tyler jetted off to Paris to meet with BBC journalist Dougal Shaw and the Les Alchimistes team, to take part in a video that ...
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AD: A Challenging year, An exciting future
Despite a slow start to the year, the future for AD looks promising. By 2050, it is expected that the UK will have reached net-zero carbon emissions. Since the introduction of the Climate Change Act, the UK has made considerable progress towards emission reduction, and a lot of this progress has come from the decarbonisation of the electricity we use. In order to reach net-zero, the scope for ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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LGA advisor questions idea of recycling consistency
A senior adviser on waste issues for the Local Government Association (LGA) has suggested that councils will be resistant to measures to enforce a ‘consistent collection system’ across England. The cautionary note over consistency came from LGA adviser Hilary Tanner during a debate titled ‘Localism vs Consistency’ at the LARAC – Local Authority Recycling Advisory ...
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Cardiff airport - Case study
Background Cardiff Airport, is a much more scenic corner of the triangular airport “hub”, joint with Birmingham and Heathrow being improved and expanded to help ease the burdens on the South East of England’s struggling air infrastructure, as demand for flights increases. The airport which was recently purchased by the Welsh Assembly will be a key player in the years to come ...
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How Much Energy Exists in Wastewater?
Through technologies like anaerobic digestion, wastewater treatment plants can make use of wastewater’s latent energy. The energy potential of untreated wastewater has been widely discussed, but is there any reliable measure of how much energy is available in effluent? In the United States alone, wastewater holds enough energy potential to generate 851 trillion BTU of energy annually, ...
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Biogas Derived from Food Waste AD Plant - Case Study
STS installed the first monitor on a food waste AD plant in 2017. The plant in the UK is run by a water company and is co-located with a waste water sewage works although this is not used as feed for the Combined Heat & Power generation units. The Plant takes in food waste from both urban collections and also a considerable amount from commercial operations including supermarkets, ...
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Monitoring food slurry and Water dosing - Case study
A manufacturer of waste food de-packers is using Siemens MAG 5100 W magnetic flow meters to monitor both dosing water and food slurry Collected food waste from food manufacturers or retailers and domestically generated food waste includes a proportion of packaging waste such as paper, card, cans and glass. More Information The presence of packaging materials is a problem if using food slurry ...
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The food we waste
UK households waste 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, around one third of the 21.7 million tonnes we purchase. Most of this food waste is currently collected by local authorities (5.9 million tonnes or 88%). Some of this will be recycled but most is still going to landfill where it is liable to create methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. The remaining 800,000 tonnes is composted by people at ...
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The Food Waste Landscape During and Post-Covid-19
The current Coronavirus pandemic continues to throw a raft of challenges – and opportunities – at businesses, both in and out of the environmental sector. From adapting their provision to support the healthcare system – by setting up 3D-printing facilities – to completely pivoting and taking more of their services online, companies in waste, hospitality, education, retail ...
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Hilton Hotel Athens - Case study
BACKGROUND The prestigious Hilton Hotel located in the chic Kolonaki district of Athens, is a 508 bedroom site with conferencing, spa and roof top bars. Boasting magnificent views of the Acropolis and Mount Lycabettus the site also offers unique catering to match, with fresh Agean fish served at the Milos restaurant, roof top BBQ’s from the Galaxy Bar for scenic sunset eating, to ...
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Whittlebury spa hotel conferencing - Case study
Background Whittlebury Hall Hotel and Spa, within earshot of the famous Formula 1 Silverstone racing circuit, boasts not only golf and award winning 23 room spa complex , but 213 bedrooms and over 40 different training and syndicate rooms. With consistently high occupancy rates and a significant training and conference business, the catering facilities on site including the 3 main restaurants ...
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Going further with food: The rise of channelling food waste for biogas production - Case Study
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, representing over seven million tonnes of food and drink wasted from British households annually. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year. In fact, if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road ...
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Going Further with Food: The Rise of Channelling Food Waste for Biogas Production
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, representing over seven million tonnes of food and drink wasted from British households annually. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year. In fact, if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road ...
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Going further with food: The rise of channelling food waste for biogas production
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes, representing over seven million tonnes of food and drink wasted from British households annually. Wasting this food costs the average household £470 a year. In fact, if we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road ...
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Liverpool university guild of students - Case study
Background Liverpool Guild of Students, the students union for the University of Liverpool has its main offices and activities located just a street width away from the city cathedral, is a focal point for any student studying at the University. The recent refurbishment of the Guild saw the redesign and incorporation of underground band practice rooms, cinema, dance rooms, bakery class rooms, ...
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Modular Plants are Ideal Solution to Tackling Today’s `Wave of Waste`
With increasing amounts of various waste-streams increasing during lockdown, operators and local authorities may need to turn their sights to modular solutions to handle new volumes, as featured in Skip Hire & Waste Magazine. The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) launched an online survey for local authorities across England to establish the ...
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Our Stance on Canada’s Single-Use Plastic Ban
Compostable Film Products Are NOT the Same as Plastic EcoSafe’s certified compostable film products are not a single-use plastic. To succeed with a proper single-use plastics ban across Canada, we advocate for an amendment that advances an approach on how to address certified compostable film products. As a leading Canadian certified compostable film manufacture, we produce products that ...
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