Food waste from the catering and hospitality is created in vast amounts in the Meridian region.
Ringwood based Eco Food Recycling, the leading collector of business and commercial food waste in the South,were featured heavily on Meridian News Tonight, 4th January 2013,during the feature on food wasted during the festive period.
Eco Food Recycling who collect commercial food waste from the catering and hospitality sector including Pubs, Hotels and Restaurants had just announced figures of collecting in excess of 7,000 tonnes of local food waste in the last 12 months and were approached by the production team at Meridian to assist in their brief documentary about the vast amounts of food waste that is wasted in the region.
Filming took place at a local branch of a leading Supermarket where the Operations Manager, Waste and Recycling had travelled from London to be featured in the footage and put forward his companies case about how they were doing their utmost to prevent food waste and once all else had failed how they were getting companies like Eco Food Recycling to collect their supermarket waste, have it fully recycled, and take it to a local Anaerobic Digestion site run by Eco Sustainable Solutions where it is turned into renewable energy.
Eco Food Recycling and one of it’s employee’s ,Charlie Pierson ,were featured heavily in this part of the production as bins were shown being collected from the supermarket site and taken to the food waste recycling facility.
Simon Heaps one of the partners in the food waste collection and recycling business then explained that food waste was a problem that all of us had to take responsibility for.The food producers and re- sellers are all doing their piece by reducing the food waste, companies like Eco Food Recycling are doing their bit by collecting the business food waste but it is the consumer that is producing more food waste than the entire food chain.
Mountains of food waste were shown on the programme, that had been collected by Eco Food Recycling, at the local disposal site in readiness for full recycling and much of this was from plate scrapings and food preparation from the catering and hospitality sector along with considerable quantities from Local Authorities that bring their residential food waste into the site.
The local Bournemouth Council were interviewed and explained that they were looking closely at collecting residential food waste from the kerbside of local homes after obtaining a Government grant.
Finally Trewlawney Dampney the MD of Eco Sustainable Solutions explained the benefits of renewable energy to the viewers. They are one of the leading sites in the country and are fully committed to renewable energy and sustainability with plans for expansion on the horizon.He explained that food waste was a resource that they were looking to capture and divert from landfill.
Any producers of food waste that are looking to have it diverted from landfill and fully recycled please contact:
sales@ecofoodrecycling.co.uk and look at the companies website www.ecofoodrecycling.co.uk for further information.
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