Food for thought

摘要

According to IMC, one of Europe's leading product innovators that helps catering establishments to turn food waste into a valuable resource, the proposed 'Zero Waste' laws could heap thousands of pounds of mandatory collection charges on catering establishments. The legislature is currently being drawn up by the Scottish regional government but the danger is that this could also act as a blueprint shortly for England and Wales. IMC has highlighted several flaws in the proposed laws that could not only mandate an extremely narrow solution, with restaurants and commercial caterers paying the heavy price, but could set the regional governments in direct conflict with the Office of Fair Trading which is itself investigating an alternative mechanism for turning food waste into an energy source.