Resources North Summer Seminar
Food for Thought: Cogitating, Deliberating and Digesting the Food Waste Issue
Held on Friday 9 July 2010
Heath Training and Development Centre, Free School Lane, Halifax, HX1 2PT
Waste management forum Resources North got its teeth into food waste with an event focused exclusively on the industry’s latest hot potato. WRAP’s prevention campaign ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ has cut the mustard, proving popular with the public and more and more local authorities are rolling out domestic food waste collections to raise recycling rates. Commercial collections are next on the menu and orders for treatment facilities are on the increase.
Charlie Wilkinson, manager of FareShare West Yorkshire opened the day with an exploration of the issues surrounding food waste and the challenges faced by organisations such as Fareshare as a result of our attitudes towards it. This session provided a good introduction to the approach and solutions offered by Fareshare, a national charity that re-distributes fit for purpose surplus food to those in need.
Head of LARAC Joy Blizzard illustrated the impact of these attitudes when she shared the experience of Shropshire County Council in delivering a food waste reduction campaign. Delegates also learnt more about the latest communication activities being planned to help prevent food waste in Yorkshire and the Humber from Love Food Hate Waste regional co-ordinator Briony Pete.
Presentations from Associated Waste Management and Leeds City Council discussed the key ingredients of successful business and household food waste collections. And TEG Environmental and Geneco offered the latest information about treatment using in-vessel composting and anaerobic digestion. The day closed, as always, with an interactive workshop session.
Resources North is a regional resource efficiency forum managed by the environmental consultancy Resource Futures, providing seminars, site visits and other opportunities to network and promote best practice.
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For further details, please contact Clair Lloyd on 0113 2003965 or clair.lloyd@resourcefutures.co.uk.