Would you support a separate food recycling collection?

[Mark]

In relation to the article posted in the Environment Forum I have posted the attached poll seeking your views on whether you would be in favour of a separate food recycling collection in Redbridge. Please register your vote on the poll. You can always change your mind later.
thanks
Mark

[Weggis]

I voted NO!

I would make a minimal contribution because I don't waste much food. Hardly any in fact.

The point is to REDUCE the waste BEFORE you Consider recycling.

As always our guv'mint tackles the symptom and not the problem.

[Mark]

I agree with you on not wasting food in the first place Weggis, and if everyone had minimal impact, yes that might work in an ideal world. However, households contain a varied number of people with varying habits. If people saw the amount of food they had to recycle every week or fortnight I think it would make them think again. If food waste was banned from land fill sites and from our dustbins then people would reduce food thrown away.

There's also the point that rather than just fill up landfill sites, food waste can be recycled and turned into compost on a large scale.

Did you see the defra report on food waste? See my other post on here about that.

[knowsie]

The point is to REDUCE the waste BEFORE you Consider recycling.

Whilst the point that Weggis makes is common sense, that doesn't mean that there won't be food waste.

Note that I said food waste rather than waste food. Surely Weggis peels potatoes and onions? Trims cabbage and other vegetables? Does Weggis have a composting bin for this waste? (We don't, there's not much call for compost in our jungle ...)

I agree that we shouldn't encourage a waste food culture but, with the best will in the world, there will always be the odd mouldy orange or the carrots that turn black; the things that get overlooked in the back of the fridge or are unfit for human consumption for a multitude of reasons. If this food waste can be recycled in some way rather than festering in land-fill sites, it gets my vote.

[jawal1]

Depending on what type of food it was and how the recycling was done then it is feasible. I remember when our school dinners used to go to pig farms.

The point about food "recycling" is a bigger issue than domestic waste. Apparently we waste SEVENTEEN MILLION TONS of food per year of which about half is domestic throw-aways. There are also issues with edible produce being ploughed back or composted because it is the "wrong" shape/size/colour for Supermarket Buyers.

The anti waste org WRAP is campaigning to get this changed and some interesting info can be found here and here