Food waste
What are London Boroughs already doing to manage food waste?
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Borough collecting food waste from a high proportion of households, and promoting waste reduction, achieving higher levels of food waste management |
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Borough collecting food waste from a high proportion of households, and promoting waste reduction, achieving good progress on food waste management |
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Borough collecting food waste from households. This may be a limited or new scheme, not yet achieving a high level of food waste management |
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Borough with no, or limited food waste collection from households. Some promote home composting or other local schemes to reduce food waste* |
| Note: Those shown on the map with an asterisk also collect food waste from all or some flats |
* Let us know if you think things have improved in your Borough. We will update the map as more action happens
Information on Borough food waste services is from Capital Waste Facts (www.capitalwastefacts.com), Recycle for London, the Environment Agency (2010) and London Council websites.
What can London Boroughs do? Provide comprehensive kitchen food waste collection services for London’s households, and promote WRAP’s Love Food, Hate Waste campaign (www.lovefoodhatewaste.com) and the Feeding the 5,000 Pledge to help residents reduce food waste.
Also engage with the Food Waste Pyramid for London programme, promoting this to local businesses. To find out more, see the website: www.feeding5k.org
Download a high-resolution version of the above London Borough map of progress on food waste management [750kb jpg]. This can be reproduced in other publications, but please check with us first (email: kath@sustainweb.org) - we would like to be sure that this work is reported accurately, and to keep track of who has seen or promoted this. Thank you!
Why is action on food waste important?
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