Sainsbury turns waste food into petfood

From this week waste from the retailer’s stores in Northern Ireland,
amounting to more than 1,200 tonnes a year, will be diverted from landfill and
shipped across the border to the Irish Republic where it will be turned into pet
food, animal feed and other materials.

The company aims to have no food
waste going to landfill by next spring, and no waste of any kind ending up in
landfill by the end of 2009. Lawrence Christensen, Head of Sainsbury’s
Environmental Action team, said: “We are absolutely delighted that from now on
we can say that Northern Ireland is no longer sending food waste to landfill.

“This is the first step in our mission to end our use of landfill sites
and to ensure that Sainsbury’s remains the most environmentally responsible
retailer in the UK.”