PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Food: Waste Disposal (20 December 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what advice she has received from the Chief Scientific Adviser to her Department on the cost and associated benefits of introducing separate food waste collections in England.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Waste and Resources Action Programme has published guidance on household food waste collections, which includes advice on the costs and associated benefits of introducing separate food waste collections in England. This guidance is available at: http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/household-food-waste-collections-guide. I have not asked the Chief Scientific Adviser to provide additional advice on this matter.

Answered by:
Dr Thérèse Coffey (Conservative)
9 January 2017