The Environment
FWDs represent a valuable addition to environmental, waste management and recycling solutions:
- Offer efficient management of kitchen food waste and a rich source of renewable energy.
- Make recycling easy for householders and landfill targets achievable for local authorities.
- In flats and densely populated areas, posing the greatest waste challenges, they offer the most convenient and hygienic means of managing food waste.
- Significantly reduce waste sent to landfill.
- Offer carbon and other cost efficiencies.
- Create added value from food waste including the recovery of critical resources such as phosphorus and other soil nutrients from sewage sludge.
- Use minimal energy and water.