Eco Food Recycling and their disposal sites that they use for recycling are able to collect and accept all Category 3 food waste.
The Environment Agency specify certain categories for all food waste as follows and they need to be treated in different forms and under different regulations.
Category 1
Very high risk material includes:
- animals and materials suspected or confirmed to be infected by TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) such as scrapie in sheep or BSE in cattle
- animals that have been experimented on
- zoo and pet animal carcasses
- catering waste from international transport, ie aircraft and ships
- specified risk material (SRM) (eg tissues from cattle, sheep or goats that are, or may be, infected with BSE).
Category 2
High risk material includes:
- diseased animals (this excludes animals infected by TSEs)
- manure or animal by-products that could be contaminated with animal diseases
- animals kept for human consumption, which die by means other than slaughtering
- animals that die on farms that do not contain SRM.
Category 3
Low risk material, which is fit, but not intended, for human consumption. This includes:
- raw meat and fish from food manufacturers and retailers
- former foodstuffs other than catering waste, this includes manufacturing or packaging defects
- eggs and other by-products that do not show signs of transmissible disease
- raw milk
- fish and other sea animals
- shells.
