Consultation on the proposed Zero Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2011
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February 2011
We welcome the Scottish Government's vision to minimise waste, reduce the amount
sent to landfill and source separate certain waste materials. FDF's first
priority is the prevention of food and packaging waste both at production sites
and up
and down the supply chain in accordance with the waste hierarchy. Where such
waste is unavoidable our next priority is to recycle and recover such wastes
and
divert it away from landfill in accordance with our Five-fold Environmental
Ambition to send zero food and packaging waste to landfill by 2015 at the
latest.
Whilst FDF members would normally source segregate their wastes wherever
possible as part of good environmental practice we are concerned about the
proposal to
require all food businesses to present the food waste generated by the activity
for separate collection. Equally we have concerns about the potential impact on
the food industry of the proposal to restrict inputs to energy from waste (EfW)
plants to residual waste.
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