Unilever Food Solutions has developed a waste toolkit for catering venues and restaurants to help food service operators control their costs better. The toolkit breaks down the cost of commercial food waste and contains guidance on how establishments can carry out waste audits. It includes a briefing sheet for managers, guidelines for staff and menu ideas... [Read more...]

The Biogas Energy Project has converted eight tons of food waste unto energy since October. It is billed as the first large scale demonstration of this new technology in the United States. Much like a giant stockpot, an anaerobic phased solid digester has been converting restaurant food waste into an energy soup since October 24, 2006. Approximately eight... [Read more...]

Plans to build a plant in the Swansea Valley to turn food waste into electricity and fertilizer are to be considered by cit leaders. The proposed anaerobic digestion plant would use micro-organisms to break down biodegradable food waste from more than 350,000 homes into electricity to meet the demands of around 5,000 homes. The application submitted to... [Read more...]

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