Businesses in Ireland will be forced to recycle the food waste that they produce from the start of July as a new policy called Food Waste Regulation (SI 508 of 2009) aims to divert food waste created by companies from landfill sites.
The food waste created by the likes of Hotels,Restaurants,Pubs,Care Homes and large Companies must be seperated from other sources of waste by being placed in special food waste bins.
The new regulations will divert the food waste created from landfill and be sent to Anaerobic Digestion plants (AD) meaning that the 10% of food waste that is currently recycled will be vastly increased in the years to come.
The new ruling (called foodwaste.ie) is an initiative of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Cré-Composting and Anaerobic Digestion Association of Ireland.
If legislation was passed that commercial and business food waste could no longer be sent to landfill as part of “general waste” then companies such as Eco Food Recycling,based in Ringwood, and servicing Bournemouth,Poole,Christchurch,Ringwood,Wimborne and the surrounding area’s would be ideally suited to look after the demand that would be created.
It is thought that DEFRA (Department of Environmental ,Food and Rural Affairs) will be lobbying for this legislation to be approved and are calling for more AD plants to be built around the country.
As one of a very few independant food waste carriers in the UK Eco Food Recycling are already proving to be a specialist in this waste stream and with the opening of a new AD plant to be opened in West Dorset by mid 2011 the final piece of the jigsaw will finally fall into place when commercial and business food waste can be recycled and converted into renewable energy.
