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Why food waste is just as important as your waistline this Christmas
Not another Christmas lunch? Given the amount of food many of us will be consuming during the festive season – an average of 6,000 calories on Christmas Day alone – worries about our waistline and those new year resolutions to go on a diet often take centre stage
At home, many of us now have kitchen caddies to collect segregated food waste which is collected by the local authority and, in most cases, sent to licensed anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities, where it is converted into biofertiliser and biogas fuel.
In the workplace however, food waste often still goes into general waste bins and then on to landfill. Not only is this expensive – the sheer weight of food waste means it can add considerably to landfill tax costs of £72 a tonne – but it’s also missing a huge opportunity for businesses to take a greener approach.
Thames Valley-based Grundon Waste Management recently launched a dedicated food waste collection service
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aimed at all businesses and other organisations – including hotels, restaurants, hospitals and schools – which have on-site catering facilities or handle large amounts of food.
The new service has already attracted interest from some of the region’s largest businesses and Kevin Brewer, marketing manager at Grundon, says this is the perfect time of year to commit to a new approach to food waste for 2014.
“Given there is so much focus on dining out, we would urge everyone to think carefully about what happens to their food waste,” he said. “Every canteen, restaurant or food service supplier will have to cope with a mountain of food waste over this Christmas period and they
need to realise that with some simple forward planning they can save money and help the environment.”
Brewer recommends that all those involved in the food service sector, as well as businesses and organisation with in-house catering facilities, should develop a waste management and recycling policy which aims to minimise the amount of waste sent to landfill as far as possible.
He added: “Food waste can take up a sizeable proportion of a company’s general waste, so improved forward planning can help reduce that figure considerably. Depending on the amount of food waste generated, we find that organisations often save money because they need fewer general waste collections and don’t have to pay such high landfill tax bills.
“Saving money must surely be on every business’s Christmas wish list and if they made it their new year’s resolution to tackle food waste, together we could make a tremendous difference in 2014.”
It’s estimated that if just 25% of the hospitality and food service sector were to embrace food waste collection services, they could save up to £76 million by the end of 2015 and reduce their CO2e impact by 570,000 tonnes.
Details:
www.grundon.com
We are pleased to offer a new food waste collection service. Waste collected via this service is diverted from landfill and taken to a fully licenced Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant to be recycled
Our new food waste collection is based on the popular 240 litre wheeled bin, delivered with strong biodegradable liners which will be replaced by a Grundon operative on each collection
C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Using our purpose built vehicle we are able to collect:
Packaged & unpackaged food Cooked meat & fish Dairy products Fruit & vegetables Bread & pastry
Pet food Out-of-date stock
If you have a type of food waste not mentioned here, please call us to check whether we are able to accept it
For more details please call: 01753 686777 or e-mail
info@grundon.com
Grundon Waste Management Limited, Lakeside Road, Colnbrook Berkshire SL3 0EG
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – DECEMBER13/JANUARY14
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