New Food Waste Law for Northern Ireland

25 May 2016

What is the new legislation:
Food Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) SR 2015/14
What is the amended legislation
New legislation
Who does this affect: Northern Ireland
When does this change take place: 1st April 2016

A food business is any business that carries out activities related to the processing, distribution, preparation or sale of food. This includes:

Restaurants and cafes
Shopping and food courts
Canteens
Hotels
Pubs that serve food
Shops that serve food
Supermarkets
Schools and colleges
Prisons, nursing homes and hospitals.

If you are a food business then you must be prepared to present food waste for separate collection:

by 1 April 2016 for large producers
by 1 April 2017 for small producers and Health and Social Care trusts.

You are a large producer if you regularly produce more than 50kg of food waste per week.

You are a small producer if you regularly produce between 5kg and 50kg of food waste per week.

The full text of the Regulations may be found here.

Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk