Ealing Council shares recycling award

12 February 2010

EALING Council and BiogenGreenfinch have achieved ‘Highly Commended’ in the Association for Organics Recycling Local Authority Partnership Award 2010.

BiogenGreenfinch designs, builds, owns and operates anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK. The company operates 12 plants and three units processing food waste in Shropshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.

It receives food waste from commercial food producers and from 11 local authorities, including Ealing Council.

Ealing Council Acting Manager for Waste Minimisation and Recycling, Catherina Holmes, said: “It's so important to divert biodegradable waste such as food waste from landfill, and I'd like to thank our residents and partners for making it possible, and in such an environmentally-friendly way too.

“The new schools food-waste collections will help — with children using their 'pester power' to get their parents and neighbours to use the service at home, if they aren't already.”

Philip Greenaway of BiogenGreenfinch said: “The public response to AD has been brilliant in Ealing. People have really got into the idea of separating out their food waste.

“It helps them feel like they are ‘doing their bit’ to fight global warming and preventing food going to landfill unnecessarily — and of course they are! We’ve been especially pleased by the take-up in local schools where we have run a competition to see which children could recycle the most.”

In the 12 months to December 2009, Ealing Council saved £163,440 by using this service. Carbon emissions saved over the same period totalled 3,700 tonnes.

The awards ceremony took place at the Hilton Metropole at the NEC in Birmingham.

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