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WASTE. The Pig Idea. World Environment Day 2013. Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Footprint. Feeding the 5k. The first UK market to install a materials recycling facility and pay as you throw scheme which enabled it to send food not fit for human consumption to livestock feed and achieve zero waste to landfill.

Feeding the 5k

The UK's largest fresh produce market, New Covent Garden Market situated in Vauxhall, has completely revised its waste system. A pay as you throw scheme has now been permanently launched following a trial in 2009, which allows for the food waste to be separated and sent away to be used as livestock feed or compost. Its resident food traders now have their own bins for organic, recyclable and general waste fitted with microchips. The bin is collected and weighed up and a ticket is printed out and stuck on the side of the bin detailing the weight and type of waste. Before the new system was installed, tenants paid a standard rate for waste collection according to the let area of their unit. Our vision & mission - FoodCycle. Vision: At FoodCycle we want a world where communities unite so that no good food is wasted.

Our vision & mission - FoodCycle

Come and help us make it happen! Mission: FoodCycle builds communities by combining volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces to create nutritious meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation. We have two programmes that combine surplus food and the energy of our amazing volunteers to create delicious and healthy three-course meals for people in the community. The people we work with and support come from many different walks of life: you can learn more about them here. Hub Programme We run 17 FoodCycle Hubs across the UK. Community Cafe We also run our Pie in the Sky Community Café in Bromley-by-Bow.

Could you help support these projects by volunteering or donating? “I come here because I was on the streets for about a month and a half, sleeping on park benches. Kerry McCarthy MP on food waste and FoodCycle. By Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East and FoodCycle Patron In recent years, we have started to see growing recognition of the need to reduce food waste – and to do so in a way which helps to alleviate food poverty.

Kerry McCarthy MP on food waste and FoodCycle

Tristram Stuart’s ground-breaking book, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, really lifted the lid on the gratuitous levels of food wasted in the UK and world-wide. Since then, there has – thankfully – been much greater focus on it as an environmental priority. In March 2012, I introduced the first ever piece of legislation to tackle food waste, the Food Waste Bill. This was backed by Feeding the 5000, FareShare and FoodCycle, as well as by Friends of the Earth and WWF-UK, and received strong cross-party backing. A shocking, and unsustainable, 30-50% of all food continues to be wasted, half of which is generated by the food industry. Next year, 2014, has been declared “the European Year of fight against food waste”. Volunteer Donate. The Food Waste Network.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Feeding the 9 Billion: The tragedy of waste By 2075, the United Nations’ mid-range projection for global population growth predicts that human numbers will peak at about 9.5 billion people.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorific intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world. Such a projection presents mankind with wide-ranging social, economic, environmental and political issues that need to be addressed today to ensure a sustainable future for all.

One key issue is how to produce more food in a world of finite resources. Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per annum. Read the Global Food report [PDF, 1MB] Where Food Waste Happens Fully developed, mature, post-industrial societies, such as those in Europe, characterised by stable or declining populations which are increasing in age. Water Usage. Video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2012S/None/TristramStuart_2012S.mp3. Home - SAVE FOOD.