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Food Packaging Reuse, Recycling & Composting Recognised at Industry Awards

31 May 2013

By Ben Messenger
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Food Packaging Reuse, Recycling & Composting Recognised at Industry Footprint AwardsA number of waste reduction and recycling initiatives were among the winners of the 2013 Footprint ‘Special Achievement’ awards for the sustainability in the food service supply chain.

The winner of the Waste Management and Reduction Award went to Sodexo UK & Ireland’s ‘Sodexo at Central Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’.

Sodexo provides its client with a full facilities management service, and in this case, alongside the client, worked to identify a ‘waste hierarchy’ which formed the basis of a food waste segregation strategy, ultimately leading to a reduction in food waste by 65.5%.

Meanwhile, environmentally friendly catering disposables and food packaging manufacturer, Vegware, picked up the Innovations in Packaging Award for its ‘Gourmet Hot Box’ (pictured).

The organisers said they had been impressed with Vegware’s Gourmet Hot Box for being an entirely re-usable, recyclable, plastic-free sealable container suitable for use in the freezer and microwave.

It is made from entirely compostable, natural materials and is claimed to be the first of its kind on the market.

Indeed, so impressed were Footprint with Vegware’s products that the company also collected the Sustainable Supplier Award for its full range of completely compostable catering disposables, all of which are suitable for food waste recycling after use.

Sandwich and snack retailer, Pret A Manger, was also honoured with the Social Impact and Diversity Award for its continued support of homeless people.

At the end of their first day’s trading in 1986 they donated their leftover food, which may otherwise have been landfilled as waste, to people sleeping rough nearby. The Pret Foundation Trust now donates around £800,000 annually for homelessness projects.

Anne Pierce, the CEO of The Springboard Charity, which helps young people achieve their potential, was named the overall winner of the Footprint ‘Special Achievement’ award 2013, for her contribution to the social sustainability of the industry, at a ceremony held in London.

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Co-operative to Send Food Waste Biffa for Biogas Production
British supermarket the Co-operative Group is to recycle all of its food waste at anaerobic digestion facilities which produce biogas for energy generation, as well as fertiliser.

Nappy Composting Plant to Treat Hygiene Waste in Rochester
North Canterbury, New Zealand based nappy recycling specialist, Envirocomp is to open its first UK plant in Rochester in Autumn this year.

New Biogas Plant to Process Oxfordshire Food Waste Collections
A £10 million biogas facility that uses anaerobic digestion to treat 45,000 tonnes per year of source separated municipal food waste has been officially opened in Wallingford, UK.

Patrick Mercer MP resigns from Tory party after lobbying sting

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Patrick Mercer MP resigns from Tory party after lobbying sting

Former shadow minister is understood to have been approached by journalists posing as lobbyists

Patrick Mercer, the Conservative MP for Newark, who has said he will not stand at the next general election. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA

Patrick Mercer, the former shadow minister, has resigned from the Conservative party after being caught up in a sting by journalists posing as lobbyists.

The Conservative MP for Newark said he was resigning the Tory whip immediately “to save my party embarrassment”, and would not stand at the next general election. It is understood that he had been approached by a fake lobbying firm seeking help in parliament for a fake client, believed to be related to Fiji.

The move comes before a BBC Panorama programme in conjunction with Daily Telegraph journalists, due to be broadcast next week, which will allege that he has broken lobbying rules.

It is understood that Mercer – a former army major who completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and commanded a battalion in Bosnia – had been approached by an undercover reporter earlier this year offering him consultancy advice for an overseas client who wanted him to set up an all-party parliamentary group for Fiji.

He is alleged to have taken payment for the consultancy, which he failed to declare to parliamentary authorities in time.

Mercer tabled an early day motion in March calling for an end to Fiji’s suspension from the Commonwealth. He has also submitted a number of written questions on subjects related to Fiji.

In a statement, Mercer said: “Panorama are planning to broadcast a programme alleging that I have broken parliamentary rules.

“I am taking legal advice about these allegations and I have referred myself to the parliamentary commissioner for standards.

“In the meantime, to save my party embarrassment, I have resigned the Conservative whip and have so informed Sir George Young. I have also decided not to stand at the next general election.”

The resignation is another blow for David Cameron, who has promised to clamp down on lobbying in parliament but has dropped plans for a lobbying register bill. Three years ago, Cameron described lobbying as “the next big scandal waiting to happen”.

Mercer, who has represented Newark since 2001, has repeatedly been overlooked for promotion and backed David Davis ahead of Cameron and other contenders in the 2005 Tory leadership contest.

He was sacked from the Tory frontbench in March 2007 after he suggested in an interview that being called a “black bastard” was a normal part of life in the armed forces, adding that he had met a lot of “idle and useless” minority ethnic soldiers.

In November 2011 he was involved in a row with the People newspaper after apparently describing Cameron as a “despicable creature without any real redeeming features”.

He was recorded as describing the prime minister as “the worst politician in British history since William Gladstone” and “an arse”.

“I’ve never, ever come across anyone less suited to the job in my life. I would take a beggar off the streets and put him in that position rather than have Cameron. I loathe him.”

Mercer said it was not clear if he had made all the remarks attributed to him and accused the newspaper of obtaining the material by subterfuge.

Campaigners said Cameron must now react to Mercer’s resignation. Peter Facey, the director of Unlock Democracy, said: “Having failed to take action over the last three years, it is long past time David Cameron took a lead on this issue. The government must now legislate for a robust register of lobbying activity and crack down on both the links between all party groups and commercial interests and the ability for MPs and peers to work as paid consultants.”

A Conservative party spokesman said: “The prime minister is aware. He thinks Patrick Mercer has done the right thing in referring himself to the parliamentary commissioner for standards and resigning the whip.

“It’s important that the due processes take their course.”

Waste Land

Sunday, 13 March, 2011, 12:00am

Clarence Tsui

Waste Land
Directors: Lucy Walker, Joao Jardim and Karen Harley


Set mostly in a gigantic Rio de Janeiro landfill, this Oscar-nominated documentary zeroes in on a project involving Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and the cantadores – down-and-out men and women who make a meagre living by finding reusable material among the rubbish.


It follows the collective’s efforts to create art from waste, with Muniz taking photographs of the vast portraits that several pickers assembled using the junk they collected on the site. Waste Land is a warning tale about the importance of recycling, and also a feel-good story about how these marginalised toilers re-evaluate and re-navigate their lives through their encounter with help from outside.


The film certainly works on both levels. The former theme is served well by the filmmakers’ vivid depiction of the sprawling mayhem of Jardim Gramacho, the world’s biggest landfill, and the pickers’ tales of locating usable items. Meanwhile, it’s hard not to be moved by the sight of the labourers’ glee and satisfaction in having participated in the creation of an artwork and seeing their own faces immortalised in those portraits – one of them, unionist Tiao Santos, went to New York to see his portrait sold in an auction.


The cantadores‘ joy, however, belies the one lingering doubt of the whole scenario. Hailing from a poor background he might be, but is Muniz engaging with the pickers on an equal footing? The key image which feeds into this debate is the sight of him standing on a balcony and directing his collaborators to move junk about: he knows the masterplan while they don’t.


Over the end credits, the documentary did state that several of the pickers left the landfill and reinvented themselves with the money they received from their work.


The film also shows, briefly, a debate between Muniz and his then wife about the implications this 15 minutes of fame might have for the pickers. (Muniz’s view is that whatever it brings, it’s still better than the lives they were leading at the Jardim. Since then, he has been patron of a fund for the pickers.)


Revisiting the cantadores now, nearly three years after the film’s inception, would probably provide the answer. As the documentary didn’t touch on that – and none of the pickers were at the Oscars – Waste Land remains an admirably uplifting tale about the oppressed on the rise, albeit briefly.


Extras: none.

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Government must insist on taking polluting vehicles off our roads

Friday, 31 May, 2013, 12:00am

CommentInsight & Opinion

Simon Ng

Simon Ng says officials must insist on removing old polluting trucks from our roads because it benefits us all, including the affected drivers

“I have been a lorry driver for my entire life and exposed to all sorts of fumes coming out of the exhaust. See how healthy I still am; I have no cancer or other health complaints. Show me the proof of how diesel exhaust fumes are causing cancer! Why are we being targeted?”

This is the view shared by many professional drivers, and exactly the sentiment of those representing various transport associations and transport workers’ unions, who turned up at a recent bills committee meeting on the Air Pollution Control (Amendment) Bill 2013. The meeting was called primarily to collect views about the new air quality objectives, which are expected to take effect from January 1. The transport trade has been taking every opportunity to reiterate their concerns over the scheme to replace diesel commercial vehicles, and the prospect of losing their jobs because of it.

People may sympathise with the owner-drivers, who worry that they may not be able to afford a new, cleaner vehicle, even with a government subsidy. This means they could be out of business once their vehicles have to be deregistered.

Yet, from a broader perspective, few may agree with the trade because it is scientific fact that exposure to air pollutants pose a serious risk to human health. It affects everyone. Healthy adults may be less susceptible to the effects of air pollution, but children, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with existing heart and respiratory illnesses are extremely vulnerable.

In other words, as much as one must pay attention to the transport trade’s worry about the threat to livelihood, members of the trade also cannot dismiss the science and the social costs of air pollution to which they contribute as polluters on the one hand, and pay for as collective members of society on the other.

So let’s not frame these disagreements as clean air versus jobs. There is no winner here, as everyone will suffer in the end because of bad air, health-wise and in economic terms. We should look at it as a win-win opportunity. If air pollution is reduced, society will benefit as clean air will reduce the health bill, increase productivity, improve Hong Kong’s long-term competitiveness, and create new jobs.

So often in the past, the government has backed down in the face of opposition pressure. Policymakers want a consensus and if they do not get it, they would rather go back to the drawing board. There have been so many missed opportunities over the years, and they have proved very costly. Hong Kong has been paying a huge price for not acting swiftly enough to cut air pollution. We must not continue to make this mistake.

We need the government to stand firmly by its plans. Hong Kong must deliver clean air to everyone for health reasons. In that process, we may need to plan our city or run our business differently. As a result, some people may be affected, but it is being done for the greater good of society. It is up to the government to decide how the affected parties will be compensated, but it must be done at a reasonable level and in a transparent manner.

We must clean up our air now. The delay is killing us.

Simon Ng is head of transport and sustainability research at Civic Exchange

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Air Pollution

Environmental Protection



Environment chief calls for talks on Lantau incinerator

Monday, 21 January, 2013, 12:09pm

NewsHong Kong

ENVIRONMENT

Cheung Chi-fai chifai.cheung@scmp.com (CTA COMMENTS IN CAPITAL LETTERS )

The environment minister called for a discussion on building an incinerator as a part of Hong Kong’s waste strategy, calling it irresponsible if talks don’t take place. DISCUSSION WITH WHOM ? THE CURRENT ENB HAS BEEN HANDED A BAG OF BONES BY THE FORMER INCUMBENT WHO SHOULD BE ON MISCONDUCT IN PUBLIC OFFICE CHARGES. CHECK OUT THE HEDLEY INDEX FOR HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED DURING YAU’S TENURE DUE TO LOCAL POLLUTION. WHAT DID YAU ACHIEVE IN HIS TIME AS ENB CHIEF , OR RATHER LIST WHAT HE FAILED TO DO !

EDWARD YAU / BOWTIE LEGACY. ROADSIDE POLLUTION INCREASED ON THEIR WATCH, SHIPPING POLLUTION WAS UNREGULATED AND IS NOW OUR TOP POLLUTER + GOVT COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE IMPORT OF HIGH SULPHUR BUNKER FUELS, EXPAT AND LOCAL TALENT DEPARTED FOR CLEANER CLIMES, YAU SIGNED OVERGENEROUS SCHEME OF CONTROL AGREEMENTS AND BUS FRANCHISES BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE AND THERE IS NO WASTE POLICY ON SOURCE SEPARATION OF MSW INSTEAD OF PURSUING AND LEGISLATING A ZERO WASTE SEPARATE-RECYCLE -REUSE POLICY – KS AND CHRISTINE INHERITED A BIG MESS FROM YAU AND BOW TIE. MEANWHILE OUR URBAN CANYON BUILDING TYCOON CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY PRODUCES 30,000 TONNES OF WASTE PER DAY OF WHICH 12% GOES TO LANDFILL.

Wong Kam-sing said that waste reduction at source remained a top priority for the government and that he would present his blueprint on waste reduction and treatment soon. YET GOVERNMENT DOES NOT COLLECT COMMUNITY SORTED AND SEPARATED WASTE FROM PRIVATE ESTATES FOR RECYCLING ! IT ALL GETS DUMPED TOGETHER AND LANDFILLED.

Speaking on a radio programme on Monday morning, he said an incinerator along with landfill expansion might be necessary, adding that such a plan would be in line with what other overseas jurisdictions do. INCORRECT – THEY NEED WASTE CHARGING LAWS AND GAS PLASMA PLANTS SITED AT THE LANDFILLS. THE LANDFILLS CAN BE REVERSE MINED, PLASMAROK INERT AGGREGATE RESIDUES CAN BE USED FOR CONSTRUCTION .

He warned existing landfills would fill up, one by one, by 2020.INCINERATION CONVERTS WASTE TO ANOTHER FORM OF WASTE = ASH, 22% BOTTOM ASH AND 7% TOXIC FLY ASH BY WEIGHT , PER DAY, WHICH NEEDS TO BE ………… LANDFILLED ! HENCE THE NEED TO BUILD MAN MADE ISLANDS IN THE SEA AS THE NEW ASH LAGOONS.

Alongside plans to roll out schemes such as glass bottle recycling, Wong also said it was time to initiate a discussion on building an incinerator and extending landfills. DISCUSSION WITH WHOM ?

“If we talk about it today, it doesn’t mean that we will implement it right now. What we need is time for more consideration. TALK WITH WHOM ?

“It is irresponsible to avoid this discussion. We need to look at what the incinerator’s role is, how big it needs to be and what technology can be used,” he said. INCINERATORS KILL AND CAUSE CANCERS IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS DOWNWIND OF THEM ! FACT ! BETTER TECHNOLOGY IS AVAILABLE. LARGE ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS FOR FOOD WASTE AND GASPLASMA FOR THE REST. SOLENA FUELS GASPLASMA SYSTEM CAN CREATE BIO MARINE AND JET FUELS FROM MSW WITH MINIMAL EMISSIONS AS WELL AS BIO NAPTHA FOR MAKING PLASTIC BOTTLES THAT CAN BE RECYCLED. SAN FRANCISCO HAS 77% DIVERSION RATE FOR MSW SINCE IT HAS LAWS ON CONSTRUCTION WASTE AND FOOD WASTE AND MANDATORY RECYCLING – IT SEEKS ZERO WASTE STATUS BY 2020.

IF EVERY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD WAS LIKE HK GOVERNMENT THERE WOULD BE NO ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION, NOTHING WOULD GET BUILT.

HKG GOVT IS ULTRA CONSERVATIVE AND NOT A PIONEER – THEY WANT GUINEA PIG TECH THAT OTHERS HAVE TRIED AND TESTED FIRST WHILST HAVING MORE MONEY IN THE BANK THAN OTHERS AND THE FINANCIAL ABILITY TO TEST OUT SUCH TECHNOLOGY – THERE IS NO RUSH- THE INCINERATOR JR AND THE APPEALS HAVE GIVEN THEM TIME TO RECONSIDER THEIR (DAFT) INCINERATION IDEA. WORST CASE THEY CAN FILL UP CARGO SHIPS AND SELL THE MSW TO EUROPE AT A PROFIT DUE TO INCINERATION OVERCAPCITY THERE. THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF MSW FEEDSTOCKS AND CITIES LIKE OSLO ARE WILLING TO BUY IT.

The government last year proposed to build an incinerator with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes at Soko (SWC ! NOT SOKO) Island, south Lantau. The project is now being challenged in court. AND THE APPEAL OF THE APPEAL WILL LAST TILL END 2014. SWC WOULD NOT BE OPERATIONAL TILL 2022, BY THEN THE REST OF THE WORLD WILL BE USING GASPLASMA SUCCESSFULLY FOR UP TO 7 YEARS – TEESSIDE AIRPRODUCTS FIRST 950 TONNES PER DAY GASPLASMA PLANT WILL BE OPERATIONAL Q1 OF 2014 ! SOLENA / BRITISH AIRWAYS MSW TO BIOFUEL PLANT WILL BE OPERATIONAL IN 2015, BA HAVE AGREED TWO ADDITIONAL PLANTS IN SPAIN AND A SECOND PLANT IN UK. SOLENA SIGNED MOUs WITH ALITALIA, SAS, FEDEX, AMERICAN, AIR CANADA etc (TEN MAJOR WORLD AIRLINES who will have done their due diligence on the technology)

It also proposed to expand the three strategic landfills in Tuen Mun, Ta Kwu Ling and Tseung Kwan O. LEGCO ALREADY REJECTED EXTENDING TSEUNG KWAN O, SENT LANDFILL CANNOT BE EXTENDED INTO THE COUNTRY PARK.

Both plans have met with strong opposition from locals. AND THE PANEL ON ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS REJECTED THE INCINERATOR PROJECT IN 2012 – WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN THAT THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR MINDS ?.

Wong also talked about a proposed HK$10 billion scheme to replace old diesel vehicles, saying the plan was sensible and reasonable, despite truck drivers’ concerns that it might disrupt their livelihoods. IF YAU HAD DONE THIS EARLIER WE WOULD HAVE SAVED MONEY AND SAVED LIVES.

On conflict between environment and development, Wong said there were already rules outlining the minimum space between buildings and the proportion of greening in new developments. URBAN CANYON DAMAGE WAS ALREADY DONE BY THE FORMER ADMINISTRATION / DEVELOPER NEXUS.

“With these measures, we can still make our city more livable even if we are going to increase our housing density,” he said.

ENB NEEDS A CHARISMATIC SPIN DOCTOR WHO CAN ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC. WITH PUBLIC ACQUIESCENCE EVEN THE MAVERICK OPPOSE EVERYTHING, SHOOT-SELF-IN-FOOT LAWMAKERS WOULD HAVE TO TOE THE LINE. IT NEEDS TO PACKAGE ITS PROPOSALS AND ADD OPTIONS SUCH AS MODULAR GAS PLASMA PLANTS AND LARGE FOOD WASTE DIGESTERS INTO THE MIX. LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE IN A PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON ALL OPTIONS.

NAIVE FEAR MONGERING (‘WE WILL HAVE TRASH IN OUR STREETS’) AND (‘WE HAVE NO PLAN B’) ARE LUDICROUS COMMENTS FOR A 300+K A MONTH MINISTER TO UTTER AND HE GOT THE RELEVANT DISDAIN FROM LEGCO MEMBERS AND WORSENED ENB’S CHANCES OF PROGRESS.

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Incinerator

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Wong Kam-sing

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Co-operative to Send Food Waste Biffa for Biogas Production

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Co-operative to Send Food Waste Biffa for Biogas Production

30 May 2013

By Ben Messenger
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Co-operative to Send Food Waste Biffa for Biogas Production

British supermarket the Co-operative Group is to recycle all of its food waste at anaerobic digestion facilities which produce biogas for energy generation, as well as fertiliser.

According to the company, its waste back-haul initiative has already been rolled out across 1500 of its stores, and all will now be implemented across all 2800 of its stores, reducing landfill, operating costs and transport miles.

The retailer explained that its back-haul system involves waste being segregated at store level, before collection and delivery by its own Logistics Service to its distribution depots.

From there, waste management firm, Biffa, will deal with the waste as follows:

· Waste food and flowers go to anaerobic digestion to produce biogas (64% of the total)

· Customer and general waste go to a refuse-derived fuel facility, which shreds and dehydrates solid waste to produce fuel (15% of the total)

· Dry mixed items, such as empty milk bottles, tins, cans, office paper and till receipts, go to dedicated materials recycling facilities, which sort and separate those materials which can be recycled (21% of the total).

The company added that cardboard and polythene will continue to be baled and sent for recycling.

In addition, the Co-operative claimed that the scheme will knock thousands of miles off the distribution network, end more than 225,000 skip collections from food stores every year and halve its food waste management costs.

The food retailer, the UK’s fifth largest, added that it worked with

The Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP) worked alongside the retailer in an advisory role during the trials for the waste back-hauling project.

“The Co-operative Food has developed a solution that fits with the complexity of their portfolio, large number of sites and their locations across the UK,” explained Marcus Gover, director of closed loop economy at WRAP.

“It will achieve diversion of waste from landfill through increased recycling and treatment of food waste by AD – all whilst reducing their waste management costs,” he added

Time for Hong Kong to stop talking rubbish

Thursday, 30 May, 2013, 12:00am

CommentInsight & Opinion

SCMP Editorial

Yet another plan to solve Hong Kong’s serious refuse problem has been unveiled. Secretary for the Environment Wong Kam-sing conveyed the right level of urgency in launching the government’s blueprint last week, calling the matter “grave”. The mix of incineration, waste disposal charges and improved recycling he laid out are what is needed to ease the strain on landfills, but they are nothing new. They have been put forward by other administrations. There is a significant difference this time, though. The matter has become so pressing that there is now less room for talk than action.

We face a critical situation with our three landfills reaching capacity by the end of the decade. Wong’s solution, which combines better waste management, landfill expansion and reducing the per capita amount being thrown away by 40 per cent by 2022, is a sensible approach. But its success hinges on every company and individual putting their all into the effort. That has so far not happened, with vested interests ensuring the problem has been edged up on rather than decisively resolved.

A patchwork of disposal and recycling schemes have been implemented over the years involving construction waste, electronic components and computers, plastics, paper and food. Beyond the construction industry and a plastic bag levy for supermarkets and large stores, they have been voluntary. Recycling levels have risen to 48 per cent, but that has not stopped Hong Kong from earning a reputation as being Asia’s most wasteful city. On average, we each generate 1.36kg of trash daily compared to 1kg in Taipei, 0.95 in Seoul and 0.77 in Tokyo.

Soaring tourist numbers skew the figures, but that is no excuse for inaction. Our city is small in area and the landfill dilemma has been a matter of public discussion for decades. That should have prompted implementation of waste solutions widely used elsewhere, incineration, household recycling and levies foremost among them. The latter has been put on the table by Wong and details of charges will be released soon.

There is already resistance. Lawmakers, their constituents in mind, have rejected an expansion of the Tseung Kwan O landfill. Incineration has in the past been scorned for the same “not in my backyard” reason. Few will want to pay for what is presently free. Given how irresponsible we have been about waste, though, those are not excuses. A viable plan has been put forward and it has to be quickly turned into reality. We have to give it our full support. Our wasteful ways have to end.

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Landfill

Waste disposal



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