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Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Food Waste Bans

A new report emphasises the importance of dealing with food waste, which is certainly true.  Weekly food waste collections are crucial to this.  The mention of banning food waste in landfill strikes me as misguided, however.  Banning a material means that relying on the people getting rid of it, in this case the public playing ball by not putting it in the bin in the first place.  If they do, you either have to refuse to collect it at source, or refuse to allow it to be deposited in landfill.  In which case, what do you do with it?

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