Resources North Summer Seminar - 9 July 2010

Food for Thought: Cogitating, Deliberating and Digesting the Food Waste Issue

Friday 9 July 2010
Heath Training and Development Centre, Free School Lane, Halifax, HX1 2PT

Waste management forum Resources North is getting its teeth into food waste with an event focused exclusively on the industry’s latest hot potato. WRAP’s prevention campaign ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ has cut the mustard, proving popular with the public and more and more local authorities are rolling out domestic food waste collections to raise recycling rates. Commercial collections are next on the menu and orders for treatment facilities are on the increase.

Inspirational keynote speaker Charlie Wilkinson, manager of FareShare West Yorkshire, will open the day with an exploration of the issues surrounding food waste and the challenges faced by organisations such as Fareshare as a result of our attitudes towards it. This session will provide a good introduction to the approach and solutions offered by Fareshare, a national charity that re-distributes fit for purpose surplus food to those in need.

Head of LARAC Joy Blizzard will illustrate the impact of these attitudes when she shares the experience of Shropshire County Council in delivering a food waste reduction campaign. Delegates will also be able to learn more about the latest communication activities being planned to help prevent food waste in Yorkshire and the Humber from Love Food Hate Waste regional co-ordinator Briony Pete.

Presentations from Associated Waste Management and Leeds City Council will discuss the key ingredients of successful business and household food waste collections. And TEG Environmental and Geneco will offer the latest information about treatment using in-vessel composting and anaerobic digestion. The day will close, as always, with an interactive workshop session.

Resources North is a regional resource efficiency forum managed by the environmental consultancy Resource Futures, providing seminars, site visits and other opportunities to network and promote best practice. To join Resources North, please visit: http://www.resourcesnorth.co.uk/Join.htm

To book your place at Food for Thought please complete an online booking form.

For further details, please contact Clair Lloyd on 0113 2003965 or clair.lloyd@resourcefutures.co.uk.

Project Synopses

Engaging the Residents of North London with Love Food Hate Waste

Resource Futures recruited and managed two embedded Outreach Workers to support the North London Waste Authority’s, WRAP funded, Love Food Hate Waste campaign. During the seven month period, the Outreach Workers organised and delivered over sixty roadshows in supermarkets, businesses, libraries and at community groups, across NLWA’s seven constituent boroughs, to engage more than 3,500 people with the campaign.

Assessing Bulky Waste in Northern Ireland

Resource Futures carried out a comprehensive review of bulky wastes in Northern Ireland. The review considered quantities arising, types, sources and destinations of bulky waste materials; and importantly the capacity for reuse of such material.The report is intended to be a useful contribution to the waste prevention strand of the Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Good Practice Guidance

Whilst Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling activity is firmly established in the UK, its collection and treatment is a rapidly growing and evolving sector. WRAP research reveals that the average household has 3 old or broken WEEE items stored in the home, therefore there are millions of items out there just waiting to be collected…

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