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78 Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Wastes and Energy AEA/ED45551/Issue 1 comparison the Napier University Report provides an indication of the different waste streams within the commercial and industrial sector and also includes compositional analysis for the mixed waste. Table 40 Industrial and Commercial Food Waste for England, Wales and Scotland Country Commercial Industrial Total (‘000 tonnes) (‘000 tonnes) (‘000 tonnes) England 127 6,067 4,121 6,189 Wales 125 211 51 262 Scotland 126 - - 457 Note: Totals do not calculate correctly due to rounding Other studies Other studies have been undertaken, which focus and specific geographical areas or industry sectors. While reference to these is not helpful in providing an overview for each country, these reports would be able to provide a more detailed picture for specific areas. • Research undertaken for Defra and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) provides a snapshot of food waste arisings across FDF members in 2006. 128 It was conducted at 236 sites, by organisations with a combined turnover of £17bn. 129 The survey included data on packaging waste, mixed waste and food waste – shown in Table 41. Further food waste arising will be in the mixed food and packaging waste, however the composition of this waste stream was not considered by the study. Table 41 Unmixed food waste arisings from FDF members in 2006 Country / RDA Food Waste (‘000 tonnes) Advantage West Midlands 205 SWRDA 111 London 23 EMDA 98 Yorkshire Forward 47 EEDA 27 SEEDA 23 NWDA 25 One North East 13 England - Total 571 Northern Ireland 3 Scotland 13 Wales 18 UK - Total 605 • A study was conducted for the East of England Regional Assembly area, and published in May 2008. 130 The study considered both green waste and food waste arisings, with a particular focus on the latter. It examined the future requirements for an increased number of facilities to treat separately collected bio-wastes from municipal and commercial and industrial waste streams. It considered waste arisings, availability, current treatment capacity and its spatial distribution, 127 http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/waste/wrindustry.htm 128 http://www.fdf.org.uk/ - FDF members cover a third of the turnover for the food and drink sector. 129 http://www.fdf.org.uk/publicgeneral/mapping_waste_in_the_food_industry.pdf 130 Summary Report Regional Biowastes management Study: http://www.eera.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAAzADMANwB8AHwARgBhAGwAcwBlAHwAfAAwAHwA0
Evaluation of Opportunities for Converting Indigenous UK Wastes to Wastes and Energy AEA/ED45551/Issue 1 technologies available, the current treatment technology gap, assumed waste growth and growth in the capture of bio-wastes. This study provides a detailed analysis of the Regional position, however many regions have not undertaken such studies, and whether they do so in the future will depend on the regional priorities. Conclusion The UK produces significant amounts of food waste, the potential value of which is only just being realised. While MSW food waste arisings are considerable, estimated to be 5.4 million tonnes, Commercial and Industrial food waste arisings are estimated to be even higher at 6.9 million tonnes per annum. WRAP, whose recent campaign ‘Love food, hate waste’ focused on household food waste, have identified that when food waste collection schemes are set up the volume collected is often significantly less than that anticipated – believed to be due to people reducing their food waste once they can see how much is being wasted. 5.3 Tallow 131 Background Tallow is an animal fat obtained by rendering animal carcases and waste from the food industry and as such its arisings would be considered under industrial waste arisings. Rendering is the process by which animal carcases and trimmings are crushed and heated to drive off the water, sterilise the material and allow the fats (tallow) and meat and bone meal (MBM) to be separated. Rendering is an energy intensive process and the industry has traditionally used some of the tallow it produces as fuel. Current Arisings The size of the UK tallow arisings is dependent on UK meat production, which effectively limits the tallow available to the UK to around 250,000 tonnes per annum, from 2 million tonnes of animal waste. The industry processes the by-products of approximately 2 million cattle, 10 million pigs, 14 million sheep and 800 million chickens annually. The amount of tallow produced in the UK has been stable for a number of years, and is unlikely to change significantly in the foreseeable future. Estimates of the amount of tallow produced range from 200kT per annum to 290kT per annum depending on the definition of what is included and the reference year. 132 The consensus is that 220 – 240 kT is available in principle for industrial use. Currently all tallow produced is used for some economic purpose. None is disposed to landfill. The main uses are dictated by the category of tallow under the Animal By-products Regulations: 133 Category 1 can only be used for burning or fuel production Category 2 can be used for industrial applications Category 3 can be used for human contact (e.g. in soaps and cosmetics). This influences the current uses: burning of (mainly category 1) tallow in boilers by the rendering industry to raise process heat and the use of category 2 and 3 tallow by the oleochemicals and soap industry. A breakdown of these uses is shown in Figure 14 (Uniqema 2008), demonstrating that 43% of the tallow is used as a fuel source, and 33% for industrial applications. These figures exclude exports. 131 Advice on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Government Support for Biodiesel Production from Tallow, Report for the Department of Transport, 2008. 132 Argent Energy, 2008; CIA2008; UKRA 2008; Uniqema 2008. 133 See Chapter 2 for an explanation of these terminologies. 79
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