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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. 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. Before the new system was installed, tenants paid a standard rate for waste collection according to the let area of their unit. Instead of sending around 1000 tonnes of waste to landfill each month, the market has now achieved its target of zero waste to landfill.

Our vision & mission - FoodCycle Vision: At FoodCycle we want a world where communities unite so that no good food is wasted. 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. 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. 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. In March 2012, I introduced the first ever piece of legislation to tackle food waste, the Food Waste Bill. A shocking, and unsustainable, 30-50% of all food continues to be wasted, half of which is generated by the food industry. It also feels immoral that good edible food is thrown away when people are going to bed hungry, skipping meals, or can’t afford to give their children a nutritious evening meal. Next year, 2014, has been declared “the European Year of fight against food waste”. When I first was asked to be a patron of FoodCycle, it was a less well known organisation. Volunteer Donate

Global food - Waste not, want not | 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. 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 1.

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