Food Waste Articles & Analysis
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Earlier this year, Ranking Member Stabenow introduced The Food Supply Protection Act with Senator Lisa Murkowski to help protect the food supply after the COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on farmers, workers and food banks. This final bill continues her work to fill the gaps in the broken food supply chain, reduce ...
Environmental Science & Technology Municipal solid waste is trash — such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings — that goes into garbage bins and doesn’t get recycled. Most of this waste is buried in landfills or is incinerated. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology have ...
In an era where ‘being green’ matters more with every passing month, the British population is increasingly being encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle ‘waste’. But are there some things you might be a little keener to get rid of? ...
After paper, food waste comprises the greatest volume of waste going into our nation’s landfills. In 2010, 34 million tons of food waste was generated, while only three percent of this waste stream was diverted to composting. ...
But although early drafts of the SDGs address issues that the MDGs neglected, such as food security, they are light on health and many social issues (education, for example, or gender equity). ...
Implement a program to separate the collection of food waste for composting, which will decrease the need to send organic materials to landfills. Achieve at least a 10% reduction in energy consumption, and become an EPA Energy Star partner. Boost solid waste recycling and the re-use of industrial materials, including recycling of electronic ...
This includes a £14m contract to manage North Yorkshire County Council’s Household waste and recycling centres over seven years for £24m, North Somerset Council awarded May Gurney the contract to deal with its recycling, waste collection, food waste and manage its HWRCs for £85m and Bridgend Couty Borough Council awarded it £75m ...
Infrastructure support service company May Gurney has won two contracts worth GBP£60m to provide waste management services in North Yorkshire and West Oxfordshire. Under the contract with North Yorkshire County Council, May Gurney will manage 17 household waste recycling centres. ...
May Gurney has won the £75 million contract to provide waste management services for Bridgend County Borough Council. The local authority’s recycling, waste collection and household waste recycling centres will be managed by the firm from April next year for an initial seven years, with the option of extending the contract for a further seven ...