Gordon’s indegestion
Gordon Brown’s recent comments about excessive food waste must be causing him a little indegestion. After a hard day at the G8 summit, talking about important issues like world food shortages and poverty in Africa, the G8 leaders unwound by tucking into a 19 course banquet! This must be a little galling to the British electorate who Gordon had exhorted to cut down on food waste on the way to his slap up dinner.
Here in Ealing we are doing our bit to tackle food waste. Unlike Gordon, we’re not trying to eat it but instead we’re turning it into renewable energy and organic fertiliser. Conservative Ealing Council has become the first London Borough to treat all its food waste in this way. The Council have been collecting food waste for several years from residents and one of the first things we did as a new administration was to extend the food waste collection scheme across the whole Borough. We’re now sending this waste to an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Bedfordshire which converts it into the fertiliser and green energy.
Another example of voting blue and going green!
Tags: recycling, Ealing Council, Gordon Brown, food waste, anaerobic digestion
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15 July 2008 at 11:06 am
Not wanting to come to Brown’s defence, but surelely you see the advantages of not wasting land, energy, transportation and refridgeration over a few Watts out of a plant in Berkshire. Any move to a sustainable economy is going to take a change of culture and society, not just tinking with a few visable symptoms of a wasteful society.
Voting blue and recieving yellow tinted spectacles? We will see after the next general election no doubt.
15 July 2008 at 11:21 am
Ofcourse – cutting waste is important and then home composting is better than hauling the stuff off to Beds to be treated. But treating it at a digestor is better than landfilling the waste (and judging by the contents of my food bin it’s largely teabags, veg peelings, apple cores etc rather than “wasted food”). My despair with Gordon’s pronouncements is that inflation is shooting up, the economy is spiralling towards a recesion (if we’re not already there) and Gordon’s advice is to stop wasting food – it seems out of touch, particulalry as he was jetting off to a sumptuous banquet.