Food Drain Campaign

Food Drain Campaign

Waste Food (UK)235,000 Hospitality & Food Service Outlets

Total Waste Food (HaFS) – 1 Million Tonne (UK)

>144,000 Tonne (16%): Deliberately Dumped

Healthcare/Service Sector - 50% Dumped into Drain (Sewerage Network)

Combined Deliberate and Inadvertent Waste Food Disposal to Drain

HaFS Total Potential = 0.5M Tonne (To Drain)

TOTAL = 2M TONNE (Incl. 1.5M T Domestic )

Source: WRAP 2013/Horizons 2012

Waste Food (NI)

Total Waste Food N.I (HaFS) - 24,000 Tonne

Approx. 3,000 Tonne is “Knowingly Disposed”

Typical HaFS Outlet : 1-2 Tonne/Year (Food Drain)

Combined Deliberate and Inadvertent Waste Food Disposal to Drain (50% Total)

HaFS Total Potential = 12,000 Tonne (To Drain)

TOTAL = 30,000 TONNE (Incl. 18,000T Domestic)

Waste Food Regulations

Waste Regulations (NI) 2011

Commenced 8th April 2012

Transposed the Waste Framework Directive (Article4)

Waste Heirarchy Prevention Priority (Pt.3 Reg.17(i))

Controlled Waste (EPA 1990) – Duty of Care

N.I – Disadvantaged Due to Building Control

Waste Heirarchy-Article 4

Order in waste prevention and management legislation and policy:

Waste Hierarchy Priority:

(1) Prevention (eg. catalytic convertor)

(2) Re-use

(3) Recycling

(4) Recovery (e.g. energy recovery)

(5) Disposal

Waste Food Prevention

Directive: 2008/98/EC

Definition of Prevention

‘Prevention’ means measures taken before a substance, material or product has become waste, that reduce:

the adverse impacts of the generated waste on the environment and human health

Waste Food Disposal

Directive 2008/98/EC

- Annex I

Definition of Disposal:

D1 - Deposit into or on to land

D6 - Release into a water body

Typical Food Waste Preventative Measure: Food & Fat Trap

Sewerage Network (UK)

390,000 Miles of Sewers (UK)– 11 Billion Litres of Waste Water – Directive 91/271/EEC

Sewerage Undertaker Responsible

Main Sewerage : 96% of the UK population

Only 4% use Private Treatment Systems

England & Wales: 10 Water Companies (Private)

Scottish Water/NI Water

Sewerage Ownership (NI)

N.I Executive - Social & Environment Guidance

Water & Sewerage Industry Economic Regulator

NI Water - Investment in Sewerage Services: £1,506 Million (1990 - 2013)

£160 m Belfast Sewers Project

Ownership/Permission to Access T&C

Obligatory Waste Preventative Measures

Fat Rat Food 81 Million Rats (UK) - 1.3 Rat/Person

20 Metre Radius of Nest when Steady Concentrated Food Supply is Available

High Rat Populations (UK)– Mild Climate

Favorite Rat Food: Scrambled Eggs, Macaroni, Cheese and Corn

Fatal Diseases: Viral Hemorrhagic

Plague Weil’s Disease and Q-Fever

Sustain v Drain

2M Tonne Food Waste Costing £2,000 /Tonne Dumped Down Drain in UK/Year