Food Drain Campaign
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 Total Potential = 0.5M Tonne (To Drain)
TOTAL = 2M TONNE (Incl. 1.5M T Domestic )
Source: WRAP 2013/Horizons 2012
Waste Food (NI)
Total Waste Food N.I (HaFS) - 24,000 Tonne
Approx. 3,000 Tonne is “Knowingly Disposed”
Typical HaFS Outlet : 1-2 Tonne/Year (Food Drain)
Combined Deliberate and Inadvertent Waste Food Disposal to Drain (50% Total)
HaFS Total Potential = 12,000 Tonne (To Drain)
TOTAL = 30,000 TONNE (Incl. 18,000T Domestic)
Waste Food Regulations
Waste Regulations (NI) 2011
Commenced 8th April 2012
Transposed the Waste Framework Directive (Article4)
Waste Heirarchy Prevention Priority (Pt.3 Reg.17(i))
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
Sustain v Drain
2M Tonne Food Waste Costing £2,000 /Tonne Dumped Down Drain in UK/Year