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 Sector):

Total Potential = 0.5 M Tonne

Source: WRAP 2013

Waste Food (NI)

N. Ireland : 24,000 Tonne Waste Food

Approx. 3,000 Tonne Knowingly Disposed

50% Total Potential = 12,000 Tonne to Drain

Typical HaFS Outlet : 1-2 Tonne/Year

Prevention at Source Legal obligation

Waste Food Regulations

Waste Regulations (NI) 2011

Commenced 8th April 2012

Transposed the Waste Framework Directive

Waste Heirarchy Prevention Priority Article 4

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