{"id":974,"date":"2025-09-04T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/974\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:10:08","slug":"food-waste-export-costs-guernsey-3m-since-2019-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/974\/","title":{"rendered":"Food waste export costs Guernsey \u00a33m since 2019, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than \u00a33m has been spent by the States of Guernsey to deal with the island’s food waste since 2019, new figures from a Freedom of Information request reveal.<\/p>\n

The figures<\/a> show the cost of dealing with the island’s food waste came down last year. <\/p>\n

For the past 18 months, the island’s food waste has been sent to a plant in Basingstoke, Hampshire, where it is used to create energy for the surrounding area through a process called anaerobic digestion. <\/p>\n

Last year, the States spent \u00a3694,000 dealing with the export of food waste, compared to \u00a3982,000 in 2023 and \u00a3822,000 in 2022, the figures show.<\/p>\n

Guernsey Waste, which deals with the island’s rubbish, has said the disposal of food waste between 2019 and 2021cost \u00a3538,000.<\/p>\n

Until 18 months ago, food waste was sent to a company called Malaby Biogas and its plant in Warminster, Wiltshire.<\/p>\n

Food waste is collected once a week in Guernsey with general waste and glass collected every two weeks, for most households.<\/p>\n

The island’s non-recyclable waste is currently sent via the UK to a plant in Sweden where it is burned and turned into energy. <\/p>\n

Guernsey Waste has about 40 contracts or supply agreements for managing waste.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than \u00a33m has been spent by the States of Guernsey to deal with the island’s food waste…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}