Falkirk Council provide foodwaste collection to households and businesses

   

The Zero Waste Plan for Scotland proposes long term targets of recycling 70% of all Scotland\’s waste and only 5% of all wastes ending up in landfill by 2025. Falkirk Council has developed a strategy supported by Zero Waste Scotland to help achieve this target and part of this strategy is the management of non-recyclable waste such as food waste. The Council are now providing food waste collections to householders and businesses. The food waste that is collected requires to be \’bulked up\’ to provide a more sustainable method of transporting this waste to the end user.

To allow this to happen, Falkirk Council recently commenced the operation of a food waste bulking up and transfer facility at their HWRC site at Kinneil Kerse. This facility also includes an area for the receipt, bulking up and transfer of glass waste for recycling.

Albion Environmental Ltd were delighted to provide the necessary support to Falkirk Council to allow this facility to be developed. This support covered development of facility, obtaining necessary permissions from regulators including complying with the ABP Regulations, the development of operational documents and provision of training for the operational team.\’