Just How Green Is Our Food Waste Scheme? ; Echo Reveals the True Cost of Council Scheme As Lorries Transporting City's Food: Scraps to England for Disposal Pump Out 8,000 Tonnes of Co2 in 14 Months
South Wales Echo › December 28, 2009
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LORRIES taking Cardiff's food scraps to Derbyshire have pumped nearly 8,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere since the system was introduced last year, we can reveal today.
The total is equivalent to the same environmental damage as done in a year by an entire village the size of Creigiau - or more than 6,600 flights between London to New York.See the full content of this document
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Just How Green Is Our Food Waste Scheme? ; Echo Reveals the True Cost of Council Scheme As Lorries Transporting City's Food: Scraps to England for Disposal Pump Out 8,000 Tonnes of Co2 in 14 Months
The Echo calculated the figure using statistics released by the city council in answer to a question from a Labour councillor, Richard Cook.
Food and garden waste set aside by homes in the city has been taken to Derbyshire to a private composting facility run by Vital Earth ever since the capital's food scraps composting collec...See the full content of this document
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