About food waste
Each year the UK generates millions of tonnes of food waste from all parts of the food supply chain food processing, retailing, catering and household waste.
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) suggests that domestic food waste from households alone is responsible for approximately 6 million tonnes of landfill every year. This excludes commercial food waste produced by industry and when all of the food waste generated in the UK is considered this figure is considerably higher – estimates are between 20 and 30 million tonnes.
BIOGEN's IAD technology can accept almost any form of food waste - liquids, sludges or solids - and we can take both packaged and un-packaged waste.
Food chain waste can come to a BIOGEN plant from a number of sources and for many different reasons:
- Out of specification or out of date foods
- Food damaged by equipment failures (e.g. production line faults, freezer breakdowns etc.)
- Incorrectly packaged or damaged foods
- Discontinued products
- Discarded food wastes from catering
- Discarded domestic food wastes i.e. biodegradable municipal waste (BMW)
