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Prince Georges County, Maryland Introduces Food Waste Composting Pilot Project
2013-11-19 20:16:00| Waste Age
Nancy F. Prince Georges County, Maryland recently introduced a new food waste composting pilot project at their Western Branch yard waste composing facility in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The county selected Sustainable Generation LLC, the GORE Cover authorized sales and service provider for North America, to assist them with the largest food waste composting project in the state at 4,500 tons per year. Maryland Environmental Services (MES) is the operator for the Western Branch Composing Facility. read more
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UK households waste 60 of food a month, figures show
2013-11-07 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The average UK family is wasting nearly 60 a month by throwing away almost an entire meal a day, according to a new report that reveals the scale of the ongoing challenge to reduce household food waste. Britons are chucking out the equivalent of 24 meals a month, adding up to 4.2 million tonnes of food and drink every year that could have been consumed. Almost half of this is going straight from fridges or cupboards into the bin. One-fifth of what households buy ends up as waste, and around 60%...
Supermarkets Urged to Adopt Three-point Waste Food Protocol
2013-11-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - If swill-feeding of pigs is reintroduced in the European Union, sooner or later there will be a breakdown in controls, resulting in a major disease outbreak, which will in turn have a devastating impact on all actors in the European food chain, said National Pig Association (NPA) in a letter to supermarket chiefs.
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NPA Urges Supermarkets to Adopt Three-point Waste Food Protocol
2013-11-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - If swill-feeding of pigs is reintroduced in the European Union, sooner or later there will be a breakdown in controls, resulting in a major disease outbreak which will in turn have a devastating impact on all actors in the European food chain, said NPA in a letter to supermarket chiefs over the weekend (2 November).
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Food Waste Organisation Formed in EU
2013-10-29 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - In October 2013, the European Former Foodstuff Processors Association (EFFPA) held its 1st General Assembly in Brussels aiming for an official launch of the association on 1 January 2014.
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