David Stowe Preston City Council

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David StowePreston City Council
Food Waste from an Urban Area Yield, quality and
other lessons learned
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• Learn from our
• Food Waste
• Trial

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Improving the Yield
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Improving the Yield
Participation Tonnage ?Honeymoons -
avoiding themApply pressureIncreasing the
painDemographics are key
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Improving the Quality
Hard at firstCrew are criticalKeeping them on
sideBags workCareful notesIt isnt rocket
science
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Improving the Quality
Hard at firstCrew are criticalKeep people on
sideBags workCareful notesIt isnt rocket
science
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More Lessons to learn
Dont throw (too much) stuff awayHardware is
continuously improving
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Hardware - vehicles
Continuously Improving otheroptions
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Hardware Containers
2001
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2005
2007
2008
Hardware continuously improving
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Lessons to learn
Manage the people not the taskDo it allGet
disposal rightJust do it
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David StowePreston City Council
d.stowe_at_preston.gov.uk