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Are you familiar with the Waste Management Obligation Act? To bring home the importance of this facility in your catering unit, I am attaching the Waste Duty of Care Act as a full stop after this article to avoid problems before various inspections.
Down with waste …
Most household waste is generated in the kitchen. Much of it consists of food and organic residues, which decompose and rot very quickly. This often results in an unpleasant smell coming from the bin. If we want to keep our kitchens clean, we have no choice but to run to the bins outside the house with our rubbish. But there is a very effective solution – a kitchen waste shredder.
What is a shredder?
This appliance belongs in a modern kitchen just as much as a fridge or microwave. The shredder helps to be environmentally friendly and helps sort garbage at the source. All the messy, wet and fast-rotting food waste is simply scooped into the sink and dropped into the shredder. The waste, ground into fine particles, goes down the drain along with the water. Of course, the shredder can also be retrofitted to older kitchens.
You will especially appreciate the convenient cooking with the possibility to immediately dispose of various scraps and leftovers of freshly processed or unusable food.
Your kitchen will be clean, free of unpleasant odours, mould, insects and spoiling rubbish in the bin.
A little bit of the law:
Everyone is obliged to dispose of or otherwise manage waste in a way that does not endanger human health or harm the environment, and in such a way as to avoid:
– risk of pollution to water, air, soil, plants and animals,
– disturbing the surroundings by noise or smell; and
– adversely affecting landscapes or places of special interest.
This law entered into force on 1 January 2013 !
The terms in Act No.343/2012 Coll. are mainly:
a. § 2(23) Biological waste is biodegradable waste from gardens and parks, food and kitchen waste from households, restaurants, catering and retail establishments and comparable waste from food processing plants
b. § 2 para.34 Biodegradable municipal waste means all types of biodegradable waste that can be classified in Group 20 Municipal waste according to the Waste Catalogue (§ 68 para. 3 lit. e)
Biological waste, which includes kitchen waste from households, restaurants, catering and retail establishments and comparable waste from food processing plants, if separated, must subsequently be recovered in accordance with the applicable regulations.
Kitchen waste is an animal by-product if:
1. originates from means of transport used in international transport (category 1)
2. intended for feed purposes (category 3)
3. it is intended for processing by pressure sterilisation or processing by methods specified in the first subparagraph of Article 15(1)(b), for transformation into biogas or composting (category 3)
and its management is subject to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 (Official Journal of the EU L 300)
Definition:
‘kitchen waste‘ means all food waste , including used cooking oil, generated in restaurants, catering establishments and kitchens, including catering communal kitchens and household kitchens.
According to Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, kitchen waste is prohibited from being used for the feeding of livestock, with the exception of fur animals. Kitchen waste may be processed in approved plants and establishments if they use pressure sterilisation or one of the approved methods according to Annex IV of EU Regulation No 142/2011 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1097/2012 amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards the dispatch of animal by-products and derived products between Member States), or if it is composted or transformed in a biogas plant.
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