Volunteer Master Composters from all around Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin got together this week to discuss ways to help reduce waste in Shropshire. The event particularly focused on food waste and was hosted at the Councils Food Enterprise Centre in Shrewsbury which was set up as an incubator unit to develop new food related businesses within the county.
We were given an excellent presentation by Garden Organics National Home Composting Programme Co-ordinator Alex Heelis about a research project she has been involved with which has demonstrated that getting households to separate food waste off for home composting can actually produce a waste prevention effect by heightening their awareness of the scale of food waste generally.
Around 20 volunteers attended the event along with representatives from the local waste authorities also attended to update the volunteers about their plans for improving waste management awareness, services and infrastructure in the county to help reduce the amount of waste which we create in the first place as well as minimising what has to go to landfill.
The event was sponsored by Veolia Environmental Services, the Councils waste contractor.
No comments:
Post a Comment