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Promoting separate kerbside collection as the favoured means of diverting food waste from landfill is misguided policy. It could deny householders hygienic and sustainable alternatives, widely used in other countries. Domestic food waste disposers, installed under their kitchen sinks, can deliver their slops to anaerobic digestion (AD) without the need to store decomposing waste in their kitchens. Welcoming today’s Waste Review and its commitment to anaerobic digestion, Douglas Herbison, Chief Executive, AMDEA, says the Government risks encouraging a policy that may limit the country’s green achievements: “Domestic food waste disposers represent an important tool in the battle to achieve recycling targets, especially in urban environments, or where people can’t or won’t separate their food waste. Each tonne of food waste diverted from landfill via a disposer can save the planet 1 tonne of harmful CO2e emissions.” The disposer grinds virtually all food waste to minute particles (98% less than 2mm) that pass easily through the sewer system to waste water treatment works and increasingly to anaerobic digestion. Here food waste provides nutrient rich fertiliser and has proved to increase biogas (a source of sustainable energy) production by as much as 46%. Domestic food waste disposers can help cash-strapped local authorities facing additional cleansing, collection and transport costs, plus a bill for gate fees for AD processing. They will also save the traffic congestion and vehicle emissions caused by additional collections. CIWEM (the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) recently completed a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence regarding food waste disposers and concluded that they offer significant national benefits for capture of food waste and value recovery, using existing infrastructure. http://www.ciwem.org/knowledge-networks/panels/wastewater-management/food-waste-disposers.aspx -ENDS- Notes to Editors FWD Facts 65% of sewage sludge is currently treated by anaerobic digestion
AMDEA is the In 2010 those members who manufacture food waste disposers formed AMDEA’s Food Waste Disposer Group (www.food-waste-disposer.org.uk) to promote greater awareness of the benefits of food waste disposers, in the belief that wider take-up in the UK could play a significant role in improving sustainability of both new homes and the existing urban housing stock, including multi-tenanted properties. Press contact for further information: Dee Fernandes AMDEA FWD Group Tel: 020 7722 9034 Mob: 07887648434 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Promoting separate kerbside collection as the favoured means of diverting food waste from landfill is misguided policy. It could deny householders hygienic and sustainable alternatives, widely used in other countries. Domestic food waste disposers, installed under their kitchen sinks, can deliver their slops to anaerobic digestion (AD) without the need to store decomposing waste in their kitchens. Welcoming today’s Waste Review and its commitment to anaerobic digestion, Douglas Herbison, Chief Executive, AMDEA, says the Government risks encouraging a policy that may limit the country’s green achievements: “Domestic food waste disposers represent an important tool in the battle to achieve recycling targets, especially in urban environments, or where people can’t or won’t separate their food waste. Each tonne of food waste diverted from landfill via a disposer can save the planet 1 tonne of harmful CO2e emissions.” The disposer grinds virtually all food waste to minute particles (98% less than 2mm) that pass easily through the sewer system to waste water treatment works and increasingly to anaerobic digestion. Here food waste provides nutrient rich fertiliser and has proved to increase biogas (a source of sustainable energy) production by as much as 46%. Domestic food waste disposers can help cash-strapped local authorities facing additional cleansing, collection and transport costs, plus a bill for gate fees for AD processing. They will also save the traffic congestion and vehicle emissions caused by additional collections. CIWEM (the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) recently completed a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence regarding food waste disposers and concluded that they offer significant national benefits for capture of food waste and value recovery, using existing infrastructure. http://www.ciwem.org/knowledge-networks/panels/wastewater-management/food-waste-disposers.aspx -Ends- NOTES TO EDITORS FWD Facts
AMDEA is the In 2010 those members who manufacture food waste disposers formed AMDEA’s Food Waste Disposer Group (www.food-waste-disposer.org.uk) to promote greater awareness of the benefits of food waste disposers, in the belief that wider take-up in the UK could play a significant role in improving sustainability of both new homes and the existing urban housing stock, including multi-tenanted properties. Press contact for further information: Dee Fernandes AMDEA FWD Group Tel: 020 7722 9034 Mob: 07887648434 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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