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How much food are we wasting? Wednesday 7 May 2014 • Issue 623 • Twitter: @Exepose • www.facebook.com/Exepose • Free
• Uni unable to calculate overall figure • Catered halls waste over a tonne a week • Holland Hall worst offender • Meanwhile, demand rises sharply at Exeter Foodbank Photo: Edwin Yeung
EXCLUSIVE Harrison Jones & Gemma Joyce Editors AN EXEPOS� INVESTIGATION has sug-
gested that the University produces in excess of 30 tonnes of food waste per year in catered halls alone, and that the institution is worryingly far
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from calculating an exact �igure for the whole campus. The statistics are based on the average amount of food wasted by students in catered halls, but given that only ‘plate waste’ from 1,300 students was measured, and data from campus eateries has not yet been compiled or standardised, the actual �igure is likely to be signi�icantly higher. In association with EnviroSoc and
The Students’ Green Unit, Campus Services audited three catered halls – Birks Grange, Holland Hall and Lopes earlier this year, calculating that an average of 780g of waste was produced per student each week, from leftover food. Their �indings showed that Holland was the worst offender, generating nearly 400kg per week, followed by Birks Grange and then Lopes, all of which feed other students from nearby
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accommodation. However, the three-hall-audit did not measure preparation or production wastage, identi�ied as further sources of inef�icient food use by the University, whilst the refuse of numerous outlets around campus was also not analysed, meaning only a very vague idea of the overall scale of the problem is known. A representation of the
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food waste produced in the three halls was created in a Forum display to raise awareness of the issue in the form of non-perishable foods that were then donated to Exeter Foodbank. The organiser, EnviroSoc’s former President, Nick Howe, said: “We looked at one small facet of food waste and found a tonne a week of waste. Awareness is...
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