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A new action plan for food recycling
WRAP support for food waste recycling
Mike Falconer Hall, Organics Programme Manager
Why is an action plan needed?
• Around 7 million tonnes of food is thrown away by
households in the UK every year.
• Lack of feed stock is consistently stated as being a
major barrier to the sustainability of the UK AD
industry.
• If 2020 50% recycling target is to be met food waste a
key waste.
Capture rate by material 2013/14
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Metalpackaging
Glass Paper &Board
Plastic Textiles &Footwear
Garden waste Food waste WEEE & otherscrap metal
Other(including
wood)
Majority of households in England still don’t receive a food waste collection
Fortnightly food mixed with garden
13%
Fortnightly Separate food waste 1%
Weekly food mixed with garden waste 6%
Weekly separate food waste 25%
No collection 55%
The amount of food waste collected by local authorities varies widely
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Weekly separate food waste collections: Yields of food waste (kg/hh/wk) by authority
To participate in a food waste service householders need…
Provision of liners to householders
21.21%
78.79%
Liners provided to hh
No liners provided to hh
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WRAP tested a package of ‘interventions‘ to improve the performance of hh food waste collections
32% increase in food waste yields (kg/hh/wk) where the intervention was a package comprising caddy liners, leaflet and residual bin sticker
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Before After
kg/hh/wk
Before
After
Project Description: To work with industry stakeholders to develop and deliver an action plan for England (Food Waste Recycling Action Plan) detailing specific actions that: - helps food waste collectors to maximize the amount of food waste they collect; - secures the supply of food waste as a key feedstock to the AD & IVC sector.
Food Waste Recycling Action Plan
How ?
• Partnership working
• Engagement with both industry and local authorities
• Develop new tools and guidance
• Potential to evolve outputs and income
sources
• Disseminate WRAP insights
Incentives not currently employed
Supply / subsidy of liners
Profit share arrangement
Provision of biofuel to Council
Input to communications programmes
Variable gate fees
Penalties for contamination
Provision of digestate / compost
Supply / subsidy of liners
Input to communications programmes
Local Authorities Treatment Operators
Contractual mechanisms project
Aim:
‘To identify contractual mechanisms / options available
to treatment operators and collectors to incentivise
local authorities to maximise the amount of food waste
supplied to treatment plants’.
• Cost/Benefit analysis showed that ‘Contractual
mechanisms’ can be used to fund the cost of the
interventions.
Variable Gate Fees – Authority funds incentive, Operator offers discount
-£0.30
-£0.20
-£0.10
£0.00
£0.10
£0.20
£0.30
£0.40
£0.50
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Uplift kg/HH/yr
WDA Financial Benefit / hh/yr Plant Operator Financial Benefit /hh/yr
Additional yield needed before both parties
experience a benefit:
Gate fee discount: £4.25
£0.74 Cost of interventions:
8.3 kg/hh/yr
Break Even Point
Expected uplift
Cost of interventions shared between local authority and operator
Expected uplift
Next steps:
• Action Plan Steering group;
• Cost Benefit tool;
• Develop the Action plan to deliver;
Increased food waste recycling
Benefits to local authorities from avoided
disposal
Benefits to plant operators from increased
throughputs
What is WRAP’s role?
• To act as facilitator and secretariat;
• To project lead and manage the delivery of some of the
specific actions.
• Industry partners and Local Authorities will identify the
barriers and what actions need to be taken and by
whom to overcome them.
• The Action plan will influence the future direction and
development of food waste recycling in the UK;
