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Seeing is believing…

Food waste in the Hospitality and Food Service Sector in NI

Kathryn Tims, KT Environmental

Overview

• Food waste costs – the business case
• WRAP & The Hospitality and Food Service

Sector Voluntary Agreement (HaFSA)

• Hospitality Sector in NI
• Cost Sector in NI
• Seeing is believing!
• First steps?

Counting the cost

• The cost of food

waste to the Hospitality and Food Service (HaFS) Sector is £2.5 billion a year in 2011 and rising to £3 billion by 2016.

Source: WRAP Research

Counting the cost

• UK HaFS outlets produce a total of almost

3 million tonnes of waste per year,

– Packaging (1.3 million tonnes), – Food waste (0.92 million tonnes), and – ‘Non-Food' wastes (0.66 million tonnes).

• 18% of all food purchased by the Sector

ends up being thrown away (as avoidable or

unavoidable food waste).

Source: WRAP Research

Source: WRAP Research

The bottom line

• Each tonne of food waste prevented saves

£2,800 of total (avoidable and unavoidable food) costs (sector average)

• This rises to £3,700 / tonne when

considering avoidable food waste

• Each tonne of food waste that is disposed

in landfill will generate 4.2 tonnes of greenhouse gases contributing to climate change

Source: WRAP Research

Voluntary Agreement

• The Hospitality and

Food Service Agreement (HaFSA) is a voluntary agreement to support the sector in reducing waste and recycling more.

The HaFSA targets

• 1. Prevention target: To reduce food and

associated packaging waste arising by 5% by the end of 2015.

• 2. Waste management target: To

increase the overall rate of food and packaging waste being recycled, sent to Anaerobic Digestion or composted to at least 70% by the end of 2015.

A Selection of Signatories of the HaFSA

A Selection of Supporters of the HaFSA

Hospitality Sector in NI

• What has been happening to date…
• Site specific reviews and development of

management plans for the signatories

• Training on reducing waste through menu

planning

• Good practice case studies

Hospitality Sector

• Video Screencasts for Environmental

Health professionals in partnership with CIEH NI

• Measuring and Understanding where food

waste comes from in your kitchen – hands

• n approach and “Winnow” trials

Cost of Food waste to the Cost Sector in NI

• Funded by DoENI’s Rethink Waste programme
• Partnership between KT Environmental Consulting

and ARENA Network

• Focusing on the cost sector and its supply chain
• Aims to contribute to diversion of food and food

packaging waste from landfill

• Running from July 2013 to March 2014
• With ongoing engagement to 2016

Project

Participants

• Serco
• Sodexo
• Baxter Storey
• Elior
• Belfast City Council
• Newtownabbey Council
• NI Assembly
• Northern Health &

Social Care Trust

• South Eastern HSC

Trust

• Western Education

and Library Board

• Stranmillis University

College

• Queen's University

Belfast

• Belfast Met College

Sectors represented

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% Staff catering Healthcare Education Services

In which sectors do you operate in Northern Ireland?

Food Waste findings

Type of Food Waste Contract caterers (tonnes food waste / yr) Education (tonnes food waste / yr) Healthcare (tonnes food waste / yr) Local Authority (tonnes food waste / yr) Combined Total (tonnes per year) Unavoidable Food Waste 5.35 10.00 6.50 0.80 22.66 Avoidable Food Waste 16.05 30.01 19.51 2.40 67.97 Sector Average 4.01 7.50 9.76 1.20

• Total Food

Waste 21.40 40.01 26.02 3.20 90.63

Costs of Food Waste

Type of Food Waste Contract caterers (£ food waste / yr) Education (£ food waste / yr) Healthcare (£ food waste / yr) Local Authority (£ food waste / yr) Combined Total (£ food waste per year) Avoidable Food Waste £44,940 £84,021 £54,634 £6,720 £190,315 Sector Average £11,235 £21,005 £27,317 £3,360

• Total Food

Waste £59,920 £112,028 £72,845 £8,960 £253,753

Findings

• Good levels of recycling for cardboard,

plastic, glass and cans, more can be done!

• Limited used of dedicated food waste

collection

• Generally poor levels of data for food

waste and food packaging waste (40% had no food waste data available and had to extrapolate)

Summary

• From a combination of actual and

extrapolated data

• 90.6 tonnes of food waste were identified
• 68 tonnes avoidable food waste
• Maximum amount of food waste a year

recorded is 16 tonnes and the minimum is 0.4 tonne.

• Average 7 tonnes of food waste

generated by each business / yr

Food Waste Costs!

• Food waste (purchase, prep, storage,

service and disposal) costs £2,800 / tonne

• £252,000 value to the sector!
• £19,384 on average to each business

First steps?

• These studies show that food waste costs

businesses

• Seeing is believing!
• Measure, measure, measure…
• Realistic to aim for a 20% reduction in

food waste

Contact Kathryn Tims kathryn@ktenvironmental.com