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\"David<\/a>The St Albans Soroptimists’ “Love Food, Hate Waste?” event for #SUSTFEST22 gave everyone “food for thought” and lots of actions to takeaway!\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n

We heard from David Birley (pictured in the screenshots of his slides) Waste Aware Co-ordinator, Herts Waste Aware Partnership and Louise Palmer \"Helen<\/a>(pictured below) St Albans\u2019 Recycling and Waste Officer. The meeting was chaired by Helen Byrne, Soroptimist Planet Team facilitator and co-President (see pic).<\/strong><\/div>\n
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David’s presentation can be downloaded here as a PDF:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Food Waste – Waste Aware for SISTA 23 May<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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David introduced his talk: how much waste is there? how much of that is food? how good are we at recycling food waste? should we be looking at reduction and not just recycling? How might we do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How much waste is there?<\/strong> During the last 10 years there has been a gradual reduction of household waste, until COVID \"David<\/a><\/strong>and the first lockdown. It\u2019s likely that this was due to people to working from home and waste that would have gone into commercial recycling was redirected to household waste.<\/p>\n

David explained that residual waste is the name used for waste that just goes into bins and therefore landfill. Residual waste has also continued to decline after a small spike during lockdown.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>How much waste and what did it cost 2020\/21?<\/strong> The average household was about half a ton per household, about 5% up on what would have been expected if lockdown hadn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n

How much food waste is there? <\/strong>Nationally (last estimates from 2017) over 5 million tons of food waste is produced per year. This made up nearly one fifth of all household waste. Plastics, although large in volume, is relatively light in weight so doesn\u2019t account for that much of the waste.<\/p>\n

How good are we at recycling food waste? <\/strong>Herts residents typically use lockable curb side bins collected by recycling collection vehicles.\u00a0 Any flats not currently getting recycling collection will be included in the next year or two due to a government agenda.<\/p>\n

How is recycling processed in Hertfordshire? <\/strong>There are two Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants \u2013 one near St Albans and one in Hoddesdon. Food is broken down without the presence of oxygen and the heat produced is collected as renewable energy.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>How effective has the food waste collection been?<\/strong>\u00a0Other specialist research organisations process this information to report back as a waste composition analysis report. They sift through random representative samples of waste collected in the bins. This last happened in late 2020. There are 7 food recycling schemes now in existence in Herts, only 5 existed at the time of the report. They estimated that our 60% of food waste captured for recycling topped the leader board. Other authorities were between 30 – 50%.<\/p>\n

There was a dry recycling comparison for the 5 year period between 2015 and 2020 which showed an improvement in all areas. Food waste wasn\u2019t being collected until relatively recently so the isn\u2019t comparison data available.<\/p>\n

In a typical residual bin\u2019s content, over 40% is recyclable, 30% of that was food waste that wasn\u2019t being captured by the recycling schemes.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>Food waste analysis – 80% of food waste was avoidable food waste<\/strong>, food that was edible at the time of purchase. Examples included over-ordered takeaway, mouldy bread\/cheese, etc. Food waste accounts for 5 million pounds of the 9.5million recycling costs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Waste – How can we reduce it? <\/strong>Nearly 1\/4 of rubbish is avoidable food waste. There was a 2022 Survey of residents about their food buying, storing and wasting habits, with a high response rate from the public in Hertfordshire (3000).<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>Top reasons: reached used by date, been overlooked\/forgotten, didn\u2019t eat leftovers saved, poorly stored and gone off, more food bought than could be eaten.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waste Aware ran focus groups and three issues<\/strong> were identified to be addressed:<\/p>\n

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  1. Awareness<\/strong> – not aware of link between food waste and climate change.<\/li>\n
  2. Skills<\/strong> – gap in skills on storage techniques, cooking skills, freezing\/defrosting<\/li>\n
  3. Lifestyle<\/strong> – busy lifestyle, cooking and storage facilities, catering for different tastes, allergies and dietary requirements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"David<\/a>Next steps: <\/strong>Waste Aware Herts is turning results into a programme which will be trialed in the Three Rivers Council area. Then there will be evaluation of the programme and more analysis exercises. Waste Aware will then pick programmes that can be rolled out across the county.<\/p>\n

    Louise Palmer (pictured) talked about St Albans Council \"Louise<\/a>recycling<\/strong>. She was able to update us on initiatives in St Albans. St Albans provides recycling bins for 95% of flats.<\/p>\n

    Wasting food feeds climate change so its vital we find ways to reduce it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    To save food waste it was suggested that people visit the websites www.lovefoodhatewaste.com<\/a>\u00a0and www.ingredientpairings.com<\/a><\/p>\n

    Shops that help reduce waste are The Refill Pantry<\/strong> at Carpenter’s Nursery in Sandridge and in Berkhamsted www.therefillpantry.co.uk<\/a> <\/strong>and The Green Stores<\/strong> in Croxley Green thegreenstores.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"Group<\/a>There wasn\u2019t time for all the questions from attendees to be put to the speakers so they will be followed up by the Club\u2019s Planet Team separately.<\/p>\n

    David and Louise were thanked for joining us (with thumbs up from everyone – see pic) \u2013 they certainly gave us all \u201cfood for thought\u201d and lots of actions to takeaway!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \"SustFest<\/a><\/div>\n
    This event was organised to support the Sustainable St Albans Festival –\u00a0 #SUSTFEST22\u00a0 – 15 – 31st May<\/strong>. Click on this link sustfest.org<\/a> <\/strong>to find out about the many other\u00a0 events across our district.<\/div>\n

    \"Recyle<\/a><\/div>\n
    \"St<\/a>Donations for the St Albans Foodbank<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0from the event came to \u00a375. The foodbank provides emergency food and support to local people in crisis. You can click here to donate via Paypal www.sigbi.org\/st-albans\/donate<\/a> or you can email sistalbans@hotmail.com<\/a> and ask for the bank details to do a transfer.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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