Supermarket waste to be pet food
Sainsbury’s stores in Northern Ireland are to take their waste food and turn it into pet feed, it has been announced.
The stores are the first in the UK to stop food waste going to landfill in a unique environmental move.
Waste will be shipped across the border to the Irish Republic to the Food Surplus Management plant in Trim, Co Meath, where it will be turned into pet food, animal feed and other materials.
The 800-strong supermarket chain made the commitment last month to end the use of landfill sites. The company aims to have no food waste going to landfill by next spring, and no waste of any kind ending up in landfill by the end of 2009.
Lawrence Christensen, head of Sainsbury’s environmental action team, said: "We are absolutely delighted that from today we can say that we are no longer sending food waste to landfill.
"This is the first step in our mission to end our use of landfill sites and to ensure that Sainsbury’s remains the most environmentally responsible retailer in the UK."
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