UK Grocery Waste Goes Green
February 12, 2010 by Eric Brown
Filed under Events & Happenings, Waste Management, composting, renewable energy
UK grocery powerhouse Sainsbury’s signed a three-year-contract to send food waste from 40 of its stores to an anaerobic digestion facility run by the waste management firm Biffa, located in Leicestershire.
And that’s just the beginning. Biffa and Sainsbury’s have a long history (over five years) of working together on waste management projects, from waste oil recycling to confidential paperwork management, to recycling. By 2012, Sainsbury’s plans to treat all of its food waste at organic processing plants. That energy will be used to create biogas, and to generate electricity.
Biffa is currently building a second anaerobic digestion plant with 80,000 tons per year capacity in Cannock, which should be online by fall 2010.
Commenting on the arrangement with Biffa, Neil Sachdev, Sainsbury’s commercial director, said: “We are the industry leader in the use of anaerobic digestion and with this additional capacity provided by Biffa, we put ourselves even further ahead.”
“Respect for the environment is one of our key values, and as such, we will completely stop sending food waste to landfill within the next few weeks. We are desperate for greater anaerobic digestion capacity and would therefore like to see greater, clearer incentives for investment in this green technology.”
Commenting on the arrangement with Biffa, Neil Sachdev, Sainsbury’s commercial director, said: “We are the industry leader in the use of anaerobic digestion and with this additional capacity provided by Biffa, we put ourselves even further ahead.”
“Respect for the environment is one of our key values, and as such, we will completely stop sending food waste to landfill within the next few weeks. We are desperate for greater anaerobic digestion capacity and would therefore like to see greater, clearer incentives for investment in this green technology.”
Harvest Power’s Fraser Richmond Soil & Fibre plant will be the first large commercial scale high solids anaerobic digestion plant in North America. Read more about the Fraser Richmond facility here.
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