food waste collection News
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Mandatory food waste collections in 2023
Stephen Edwards, Network Protection at Southern Water looks deeper into tackling FOG in the sewers. In 2023, new legislation under the Environmental Bill mandates the collection of food waste for households. Steve explains that water companies should approach this with out of the box thinking, and collaborating with local authorities to prevent FOG in the sewers and into food waste. EFS21: ...
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WRAP trying to understand influences on food waste collections
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) are trying to gain an understanding of how different methods of food waste collection interact and influence householder waste prevention behaviour. Together with SKM Enviros, WRAP is undertaking a literature review of published and unpublished research which will assist them in building up a picture of attitudes towards and understanding of food ...
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WRAP confirms £3.5m food waste budget
The Waste & Resources Action Programme has confirmed that it has set aside a budget of £3.5 million to support local authorities in England who want to start separate food waste collections. WRAP has sent a letter to all councils in England inviting them to apply for a share of the fund. MRW reported in June that WRAP was to set up the fund to support local authorities in achieving their ...
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WRAP publish FWRAP second year report
The REA who sits on the steering group of the Food Waste and recycling Action Programme are delighted to see that progress has been made over the last twelve months in progressing the issue of food waste collections, as well as addressing some of the issues food waste collections highlights such as plastics in biowaste. The quality of feedstocks remains an important issue for the industry. ...
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Influencing factors on local authority recycling rates identified in UK
Resource efficiency experts WRAP today published a new report which has identified key factors that influence local authority recycling performance rates, and which quantifies the degree to which these impact on those rates. The research, “Analysis of recycling performance and waste arisings in the UK 2012/13”, has been produced to give local authorities and waste management ...
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Food waste recycling is as important as ingredients says survey
Almost 80 per cent of people believe that where food waste ends up is as important as where ingredients come from when they dine out, according to new research. A survey commissioned by commercial food waste collection and recycling provider Cawleys, found that for 78 per cent of people waste was as important as food quality when eating out. Additionally, 69 per cent of people care about food ...
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Food waste collection trial helps send recycling rates soaring in Belfast
A pilot scheme to collect food waste from 7,000 Belfast homes has proved so successful it could be extended to other parts of the city. More than 40 tonnes – the equivalent of around eight African elephants – has been collected by Belfast City Council since they introduced the trial collection service in July. But while the pilot has been hailed a massive success, helping to boost recycling rates ...
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The UK Needs To Recycle another 1.7m Tonnes to Reach 2020 Target
WRAP’s Liz Goodwin says that reaching a 50 percent recycling rate is not going to be easy. Figures published last week show that the annual rate of recycling is slow moving as “waste from households” in England was 44.2 percent in 2013, only a slight increase from 44.1 percent in 2012. In her blog Goodwin said the following: “The recycling rates published this week are ...
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Depackaging Source Separated Organic Waste
Rowan engineering and their Spanish agents recently completed the supply, installation and commissioning of a complete depackaging line in northern Spain to seperate organic waste. The machine will be processing food waste collected from local villages and towns and adding the recovered organic material to its compost. Due to the nature of the material, stainless steel was for all contact ...
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£10,000 in landfill tax saved through Aberdeen’s food recycling scheme
Last summer £800,000 of Scottish Government cash was initially spent by Aberdeen City Council to install food waste recycling bins across 54,000 city homes. Effort have certainly paid off with the equivalent of 43 fully-loaded lorries of potato peelings, leftovers and used tea bags being kept out of landfill sites. An Aberdeen City Council spokesman said: “Under the Waste ...
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New programme to help London boroughs recycle more unveiled today
Unveiled today at The London Conference, is the new, jointly funded, support programme for London waste authorities, aptly named Resource London. It will be delivered in partnership by the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) and WRAP, the UK’s resource efficiency body. Resource London will provide a range of support to London waste authorities helping them to save money whilst ...
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ADBA welcomes inclusion of weekly food waste collections in pickles’ £250m fund
In a welcome change of tack from previous indications that only weekly residual black bag collections would be supported, the Department for Communities and Local Government today announced that councils looking to deliver weekly food waste collections will receive support from their £250m fund. The fund will support the adding of a ‘weekly food waste (or organic waste) service to an ...
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Public supports separate food waste collections, new report reveals
Trials offering separate collections of food waste to over 94,000 households have shown high levels of public support for diverting food waste from landfill, WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) revealed this week. Following these trials, some local authorities have already decided to roll out these collections on a permanent basis. Consumer surveys conducted by WRAP showed 78 per cent ...
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CO²Sense Yorkshire offers SMEs funding to reduce food waste
CO²Sense Yorkshire has made funding available to help food waste producing, collecting and processing SME’s in Yorkshire and Humber reduce their output. Businesses will be able to bid for funds from the Greenhouse Gas Savings Capital Investment fund to deliver waste reduction initiatives, recycling services or reuse projects.Funded projects are expected to hit targets including tonnage of waste ...
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Maple valley high school receives national award for greening up school operations
Tahoma Senior High School is in the national spotlight for its extraordinary student-led effort to implement green operations at its campus. The school’s Green Team received the President’s Environmental Youth Award from an EPA official today. “These students have turned the tables on their teachers and parents—they are teaching the adults and their own peers how to lead ...
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BioSep technology to Huddinge, Sweden
SRV Återvinning in Huddinge has chosen Purac – Lackeby to build their new pre treatment facility for collected food waste. Norsk Biogass unique BioSep® technology will constitute the core element in the processing line. The assignments proves once again that Norsk Biogass' unique BioSep® technology and BioPrePlant® design represent the forefront of the ...
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Anaerobic digestion deal green lights county waste collections
The first county-wide food waste collections to be processed using anaerobic digestion on a large scale will begin this summer in Oxfordshire. Food waste collections across the county will begin following a 15-year deal between the county council and organic waste specialists Agrivert. Agrivert will process the food and green waste at a number of facilities, including two new anaerobic digestion ...
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Bedfordshire Pauses Food Waste Collections to Clear Garden Refuse Backlog
Central Bedfordshire Council has announced that it will be resuming garden waste collections in October, redeploying drivers from within the food waste service. The change comes after a build-up in garden waste accumulated throughout the region, caused by national HGV driver shortages. The refuse will be collected between 18 October and 30 October, with food waste acquisition being put on pause ...
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Sita trials commercial food waste recycling scheme
Sita has launched a trial commercial food waste collection and recycling scheme in South London. The new initiative, which began this week, collects food waste from businesses around Croydon and Wimbledon using a special vehicle with dual compartments for glass and food waste. Food waste from businesses is collected in biodegradable ‘kitchen caddy’ sized bags, which are then sealed. The ...
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Welsh Local Authorities hit landfill targets a year early
Wales has hit its European Union Landfill Directive target a year early, and its local authorities have managed to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill. The Landfill Allowances Scheme limits the amount of waste councils can send to landfill. Overall, councils sent 599,703 tonnes of biodegradable municipal waste to landfill compared to the 2008/09 Wales allowance of 788,000 tonnes – this ...
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