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The amount of commercial food waste that is discarded by hospitals has been quantified by a report in Scotland.
Seven health boards have produced staggering figures showing the amount of food waste that is either untouched or partially uneaten exceeded £2.1 million. Mark Wallace, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, branded the amounts “disturbing” and “a serious financial drain”.
Advisory group Health Facilities Scotland demand hospitals keep food waste below 10 per cent.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: “We expect NHS Boards to take necessary steps to reduce food waste wherever possible.”
Food waste in hospitals
Food waste in hospitals is one of the area’s that is being targeted by Eco Food Recycling, a new company set up to handle commercial food waste in the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Ringwood, Wimborne and surrounding area’s.
With the vast majority of food waste being sent to landfill sites the company is offering a commercial food waste collection service from hospitals that will 100% recycle the food waste stream.
Although reducing food waste will be the responsibility of the hospitals they now have the option to recycle the food waste that is produced by using the recycling service that is provided by the junk removal company and their new collection round.
All food waste collected will be taken to an in-vessel composting facility at Hurn Airport where it will be turned into compost after a prolonged process.
In the future the food waste will be taken to a new bio-gas plant that is currently under construction in West Dorset and is due to open in Spring 2018.
Local Council to collect residential food waste but not from businesses
As from August 1st Lancaster and Morecambe Council will start residential food waste collections but have failed to address the problems of business food waste.
Lancaster City Council will start fortnightly collections of Food Waste in a revamp of its refuse and recycling programmes. The new service will save the Council an estimated £400,000 per annum.
The launch of the scheme also pre-empts possible mandatory legislation to introduce better food waste disposal at a national level.
Yet another Council has addressed the food waste problems that we have in today’s society but because of financial restraints within local government commercial and business food waste collections has been neglected.
Predominantly all food waste that is generated in the UK from schools, colleges, hotels, restaurants, pubs and large canteens is taken to landfill sites creating the environmental problems of greenhouse gasses and global warming.
We need to decrease food waste
It has been proven that the recycling of business food waste offers a more sustainable solution and reduces the carbon footprint of the commercial world but there is a significant lack of waste carriers that carry food waste and can have it recycled.
In the Bournemouth area recycling companies have pioneered a food waste collection service that is aimed purely at businesses including schools and the hotel trade.
All commercial food waste that is collected on the round will be taken to recycling facilities for recycling in their in-vessel composting plant where after a prolonged process it will go back onto the land as compost.
Within the next year an Anaerobic Digester (AD) plant will be opened in West Dorset and renewable energy will be the end result of the organic food waste.
Top London Hotel recycles Food Waste to reduce carbon footprint
The Savoy Hotel in London, one of the most famous in the capital, is to start recycling it’s food waste when a planned £100 million refurbishment is completed later this year. The US waste management consulting company Indianapolis Dumpster Rental Center is managing the deployment of this new recycling program, based on their experience in Indiana.
The food waste produced will be sent to a biomass power plant that will turn it into renewable energy,enough to supply electricity to 10% of the Hotel’s rooms.
Debra Patterson, the hotel’s environmental ambassador, told the press that the scheme will allow it “not only to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, but to make a significant improvement to the Savoy’s overall carbon footprint by displacing fossil fuels – a completely sustainable solution“.
This decision proves that by recycling business food waste, particularly from the Hotel industry, can be financially driven as well as being environmentally friendly by reducing the carbon footprint.
Most hotels and guest houses in the UK are currently sending their residual food waste to landfill sites rather than having it recycled.
Commercial food waste collector which specialise in the hotel and tourism industry operate a business food waste collection round in Hampshire and Dorset whereby all food waste collected will be taken to an in-vessel composting facility for 100% recycling.
Within the next 12 months the food waste will be taken to a new Anaerobic Digester (AD) plant, currently under construction, where it will be turned into renewable energy similar the the Savoy Hotel system.
Hotels show interest in new food waste collection service on south coast
A number of Hotels have shown an interest in the food waste collection service. Domestic food waste is rising and is the responsibility of local councils but commercial and business food waste has been neglected mainly because, until now, nobody has offered a food waste collection round to this sector.
The saturation of Hotels, both large and small, is as high as anywhere in the UK. Add to this the many guest houses that can be found to accommodate the ever growing tourist industry and it is easy to understand that business food waste is a massive problem from the hotel trade.
Currently the majority of food waste created by hotels goes to landfill which in turn creates methane gas, one of the considering factors in greenhouses gasses and subsequent global warming.
Recycling companies have pioneered a food waste collection service whereby all food waste collected will be 100% recycled at a local in-vessel composting facility. Within the next 12 months a new Anaerobic Digester (AD) plant will be opened in West Dorset where the organic food waste will be turned into renewable energy.
