Department for Education: Food
(asked on 9th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total amount of food waste generated by DfE offices for each of the last five years.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 20th October 2017
The amount of waste disposed of by composting or anaerobic digestion over each of the last five years was as follows:
- 2012-13: 25 tonnes
- 2013-14: 16 tonnes
- 2014-15: 24 tonnes
- 2015-16: 17 tonnes
- 2016-17: 15 tonnes
The majority of this was food waste (which includes inedible waste such as fruit peel and coffee grounds) but also includes other compostable waste such as tissue paper.