Waste Prevention Programme

2M Tonne Food Waste Costing £2,000 /Tonne Dumped Down Drain in UK/Year

Waste Food Facts

235,000 Hospitality & Food Service Outlets *(UK)

Total Waste Food (Commercial) > 1 Million Tonne

Healthcare/Service Sector – 50%* (Drain Disposal)

Deliberate (SDU) plus Inadvertent Wash Down:

Commercial Potential - 0.5M Tonne (Drain Disposal)

(plus 1.5MT Domestic*): TOTAL > 2M TONNE (UK)

*Source: WRAP 2013/Horizons 2012 (SDU =Sink Disposal Unit)

Waste Regulations (NI) 2011

N. Ireland Law : 8th April 2012

Transposed the Waste Framework Directive (Article 4)

Commercial Controlled Waste(EPA 1990): Duty of Care

Worst Offender : N. Ireland - No Building Control !!!

NI Food Dumped to Drain: TOTAL > 50,000 TONNE

Waste Heirarchy-Article 4

Order in waste prevention and management legislation and policy: (Pt.3 Reg.17(i))

Waste Hierarchy Priority:

(1) Prevention (eg. strainers, traps)

(2) Re-use (eg. soups, casseroles)

(3) Recycling (eg. doggie bags)

(4) Recovery (eg. compost/AD)

(5) Disposal (eg. landfill, SDU)

Waste Food Prevention

Directive: 2008/98/EC

Definition of Prevention

‘Prevention’ means measures taken before a substance, material or product has become waste, that reduce:

the adverse impacts of the generated waste on the environment and human health

(eg. out of sewer flooding/sewer gas/rodents)

No.1 – Most Preferable Option

Waste Food Disposal x

Directive 2008/98/EC

- Annex I

Definition of “Disposal”

D1 - Deposit into or on to land (eg. drainage system)

D6 - Release into a water body (eg. drainage system)

No.5 – Least Favorable Option

Typical Waste Food Prevention Measure: Food & Fat Trap

Network Asset Protection

390,000 Miles of Sewers (UK)– 11 Billion Litres of Waste Water – Directive 91/271/EEC

Sewerage Undertaker Responsibility

Main Sewerage : 96% of the UK population

Private Sewerage Treatment : Only 4% Use

England & Wales: 10 Water Companies (Private)

Scottish Water/NI Water (NDGB)

Prevention Enforcement

NI Water - Investment in Sewerage Services: (1990 - 2013) £1,506 Million

NI Water: -38% efficiency v England/Wales

Water & Sewerage Industry Regulator - Cut 4%

Sewers: £160m Belfast 2010/£3m Bangor 2013

Trade Effluent – Priority - Plug the Loophole!

Waste Prevention Measure: Spot Checks!

Trade Effluent Content

Definition: “in the course of a trade” - HaFS

Worst Offenders Healthcare/Service Sector

Up to 50% of all Waste Food Goes to Drain

Implement Food Drain Waste/Water Limit:

o Green: -1.0 kg/m3 (Prevention Option)

o Amber: 1-2 kg/m3 v

o Red : +2 kg/m3 (Disposal Option)

Food For Thought

80 Million Rats (UK) : +1 Rat/Person

20 Metre Nesting Radius to Food Supply

2 Tonne/Year Food to Drain per Restaurant

25 Kg/Year Waste Food Available per Rat

Fatal Diseases: Viral Hemorrhagic

Plague Weil’s Disease and Q-Fever

(Favorite Rat Food: Scrambled Eggs)

Food Drain Campaign

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