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<p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee,
to respond on his behalf.</p><p>Food and catering waste from catering facilities in
both Houses is segregated from other waste at the kitchens; it is recovered offsite
by means of anaerobic digestion to produce methane fuel and fertiliser. No catering
waste from Parliament is sent to landfill.</p><p>The measurements of waste are not
broken down by House.</p><p>In each of the last five financial years, the following
amounts (kilogrammes) of food waste from catering facilities across Parliament were
disposed of:</p><p>2013/14: 140,017kg</p><p>2014/15: 209,667kg</p><p>2015/16: 130,384kg</p><p>2016/17:
228,441kg</p><p>2017/18: 266,749kg</p><p> </p><p>The increase in the amount of food
waste being disposed of is partly as a result of improvements in waste management;
this has meant that an increasing proportion of food waste has been diverted from
general waste into a dedicated food waste stream. Additionally, macerators have been
removed from the Estate: food waste disposed of through macerators was not previously
captured in the food waste stream. In both cases this has ensured that food waste
is now sent to an anaerobic digestion facility, moving it up the waste hierarchy.</p><p>Food
waste from offices is not currently segregated and is captured in the general waste
stream and sent to an energy-from-waste facility. A system to collect this separately,
together with compostable items, is to be introduced in the next couple of months.</p><p>
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