1.3 Millions tonnes of food waste to landfill

[Birch Solutions]

Interesting article in The Grocer showing that food manufacturers are embracing the potential of anaerobic digestion with 720,000 tonnes of food waste being sent to AD Plants in the UK.
There is still too much waste being sent to landfill though. Birch Solutions works at the heart of the AD sector, supplying the parts and expertise operators need to turn food waste into valuable energy.

Leading food companies sent 1.3 million tonnes of food to landfill and anaerobic digestion

The anonymised figures come from 16 of the world's major companies who reported as part of the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Coalition of Action

www.thegrocer.co.uk

 

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All of which used to go into pig swill.

 

[Birch Solutions]

All of which used to go into pig swill.

which in turn would get turned into slurry which can also be utilised in AD.

 

[melted welly]

Interesting article in The Grocer showing that food manufacturers are embracing the potential of anaerobic digestion with 720,000 tonnes of food waste being sent to AD Plants in the UK.
There is still too much waste being sent to landfill though. Birch Solutions works at the heart of the AD sector, supplying the parts and expertise operators need to turn food waste into valuable energy.

Leading food companies sent 1.3 million tonnes of food to landfill and anaerobic digestion

The anonymised figures come from 16 of the world's major companies who reported as part of the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Coalition of Action

www.thegrocer.co.uk

Define “food manufacturers”.

We “grow” food. Absolutely no food goes to landfill from farms. This wastage is beyond the farm gate.

 

[serf]

More food waste the merrier I suppose !
It's just a hard concept to get Ur head around tho...
' goes against the grain ' !