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Universal collections needed 'to reduce and recycle food waste', says ADBA

Open-access content Tuesday 14th May 2019 — updated 7.14pm, Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Government funding for weekly food waste collections is huge environmental win

Defra: Consultancy on Consistency in Household and Business Recycling Collections

Funding for food waste collections needed sooner rather than later

Gove launches landmark blueprint for resources and waste

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AD industry joins coalition calling for food waste collections

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Government must do the right thing with universal food waste collections 

14 May 2019 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal 

 

A trade body for anaerobic digestion is calling for weekly food waste collections for all households and businesses in England to "maximise the amount of inedible food waste recycled through AD into renewable biogas and digestate".

 

The biogas by-product can then be used for heat, power, and clean transport fuel and digestate for nutrient-rich natural fertiliser.

 

The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) was responding to the government's consultation on recycling consistency in England.

 

It added that universal collections would also "require more food waste AD capacity to treat and recycle the resulting separated food waste, and support for local authorities in their adoption of suitable recycling practices".

 

Charlotte Morton, ADBA chief executive, said it was "widely acknowledged that food waste collections reduce the amount of edible food thrown away by making this more visible - given the resources involved in producing food, this is the biggest benefit of separately collecting food waste".

 

She added: "As well as sufficient financial and educational resourcing for local authorities to ensure that food waste collections are affordable and effective, it's vital for ministers to now provide fresh support for the AD plants that will be needed to recycle the increased food waste that will become available as a result of universal collections - even with our collective best efforts to reduce food waste it cannot be eliminated and it remains a valuable resource that needs to be recycled."

 

 

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