Food Industry Makes Contribution To Preventing Food Waste
http://readymealsinfo.com/cgi-bin/research.cgi?sp= [2008-7-23]
Tag : Production Waste
Food and drink manufacturers prevented over half a million tonnesof food waste being created in 2006 by sending food by-products foruses such as animal feed, according to the results of a surveypublished today by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and Defra.Of the waste that did arise at the sites surveyed, 82% was recycledor recovered.
The survey found that of the 835,000 tonnes of food and packagingwaste produced at 236 production sites of FDF members in 2006,686,000 tonnes were recycled or recovered in some way. Overall,only 138,000 tonnes was sent directly to landfill.
The survey results will help inform FDFs work with theGovernments Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to continueimproving food and packaging waste prevention. The results shouldalso serve as encouragement to the waste industry to invest inareas of the country where waste is highest and demand for newanaerobic digesters and composting capacity is likely to bestrongest.
Overall it will help FDF to fulfil its aspiration under itsFive-fold Environmental Ambition published last October to sendzero food and packaging waste to landfill from 2015 (2). This iscontributing to the Governments goals set out in the 2007 WasteStrategy and the Prime Ministers Strategy Units report FoodMatters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century published earlierthis month.
Food and drink manufacturers prevented over half a million tonnesof food waste being created in 2006 by sending food by-products foruses such as animal feed, according to the results of a surveypublished today by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and Defra.Of the waste that did arise at the sites surveyed, 82% was recycledor recovered.
The survey found that of the 835,000 tonnes of food and packagingwaste produced at 236 production sites of FDF members in 2006,686,000 tonnes were recycled or recovered in some way. Overall,only 138,000 tonnes was sent directly to landfill.
The survey results will help inform FDFs work with theGovernments Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to continueimproving food and packaging waste prevention. The results shouldalso serve as encouragement to the waste industry to invest inareas of the country where waste is highest and demand for newanaerobic digesters and composting capacity is likely to bestrongest.
Overall it will help FDF to fulfil its aspiration under itsFive-fold Environmental Ambition published last October to sendzero food and packaging waste to landfill from 2015 (2). This iscontributing to the Governments goals set out in the 2007 WasteStrategy and the Prime Ministers Strategy Units report FoodMatters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century published earlierthis month.
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