You can have my portion
Happy to give it a go, after all most red food dye you'll eat is from Beetles. And most of the rest of the world eat insects.
You can have my portion
Not sure why you posted that TBH? Insect protein (for those who eat animals) is a growing source of food - some countries have been eating insects for millennia anyway.So the EU says yellow mealworms are safe to eat.
Yellow mealworm safe for humans to eat, says EU food safety agency
Move paves way for high-protein maggot-like insect to be approved for consumption across Europewww.theguardian.com
Come on Boris, what about us in the UK?
When are we going to be allowed to eat yellow mealworms?
Aren't Prawns closely related to insects? People have no problems eating them.Happy to give it a go, after all most red food dye you'll eat is from Beetles. And most of the rest of the world eat insects.
Just glorified wood-lice. Heavily glorified, mind.Aren't Prawns closely related to insects? People have no problems eating them.
Oi Schhhh donβt let onAh come on. No doubt you're happy to eat unfertilised proto-embryos, drink the product of fungus-infected cereals, eat carbohydrate-rich deposits which developed as tumours on the roots of nightshade plants etc
With a curry sauce on r sweet and sour sauce surelyHappy to give it a go, after all most red food dye you'll eat is from Beetles. And most of the rest of the world eat insects.
They have a good PR team behind them obviously.Just glorified wood-lice. Heavily glorified, mind.
I know we've moved on to eating bugs now, but just going back a bit....to the waste plastics/waste export issue.Going back to BWL's initial post, I think the article linked stated new EU rules came into force on the 1st January, so it will be interesting to see how these figures change in the next 5 years or so.
Agree with you about all countries should be ashamed.
I know we've moved on to eating bugs now, but just going back a bit....to the waste plastics/waste export issue.
In truth there is a conflation of two issues here.
The export of hazardous waste has absolutely nothing to do with the change of rules that came in to force on 1st Jan. These new rules are as a result of changes to something called the Basel convention (the place in Switzerland) which governs the international movement of certain wastes and have tightened requirements on export of waste plastics for recycling in non-OECD countries (so think mostly Asia, SE Asian destinations). Basically, they don't prevent export to those countries, but they are there to make sure the stuff is as uncontaminated as possible by making it easier for single polymer loads to go an bringing in a requirement to make sure that the place it is going to is actually going to recycle it - if the recycling plant isn't operating to the same standard we (or the EU I should say) would expect to happen here (or in the EU), then it can't go. It also imposes extra notification requirements on mixed polymer loads - again aimed at making sure stuff is as recyclable as possible (single type of plastic = higher quality raw material) and as free from contamination as possible.
And that is the clean end of the waste we export. We also export rather a lot (2.5million tonnes per year- about half of what we produce) of something the industry calls RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) to Europe (mainly Holland and Sweden). It is all the crap that is too contaminated to recyle, that is squished into bales and wrapped with sileage wrap, put on lorries (quite a bit of it) and sent through Dover (main port). The government (and industry) will tell you this is a waste recovery activity because the energy is recovered by the incinerator it goes to and used in local heating schemes or in electricity generation.
Sorry for the diversion from eating insect protein...just another example of a problem we are not really dealing with and expecting someone else to provide a solution to!
We've had this terrible crisis here over the last few weeks, that China has stopped buying Western Rock Lobster (huge gorgeous juicy saltwater crayfish), so they've been $20 or less per tail (400g or so). "Not marinated grilled lobster again, Dad ...".Just glorified wood-lice. Heavily glorified, mind.
Drop in the ocean I'm afraid. Figures for exports can be found here: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/rdf-exports-continue-to-fall-in-2019/Worry not...... we won`t need to export it soon.
Whizz it up the M40 or the M1.
New 42MW energy recovery facility in Leicestershire achieves financial close - Energy Live News
Located just off the M1 motorway in the East Midlands, the facility will be able to process up to 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste annuallywww.energylivenews.com
Worry not...... we won`t need to export it soon.
Whizz it up the M40 or the M1.
New 42MW energy recovery facility in Leicestershire achieves financial close - Energy Live News
Located just off the M1 motorway in the East Midlands, the facility will be able to process up to 350,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste annuallywww.energylivenews.com
As have Gloucestershire:Oxfordshire have already done that:
Ardley ERF
Ardley Energy Recovery Facility is located near Bicester in Oxfordshire, just off the M40 motorway. Find out more about the facility, how it works, the processes at work and the visitor centre.www.viridor.co.uk
As have Gloucestershire:
https://www.ubbgloucestershire.co.uk/
This is probably the most complete (and most recent) data on existing and planned capacity: https://www.tolvik.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Tolvik-UK-EfW-Statistics-2019-Report-June-2020.pdfAs you know a lot of rubbish (pun!!) is the greater plan 1 such facility for each County or more?
As for PPE ..... we`ve reached a contractual "issue" with our waste contractor due to the increased volume (massive!) and their obligations....
I doubt we are alone.....
Thanks for dragging us back out of Bashamwonderland's rabbit hole.I know we've moved on to eating bugs now, but just going back a bit....to the waste plastics/waste export issue.
In truth there is a conflation of two issues here.
The export of hazardous waste has absolutely nothing to do with the change of rules that came in to force on 1st Jan. These new rules are as a result of changes to something called the Basel convention (the place in Switzerland) which governs the international movement of certain wastes and have tightened requirements on export of waste plastics for recycling in non-OECD countries (so think mostly Asia, SE Asian destinations). Basically, they don't prevent export to those countries, but they are there to make sure the stuff is as uncontaminated as possible by making it easier for single polymer loads to go an bringing in a requirement to make sure that the place it is going to is actually going to recycle it - if the recycling plant isn't operating to the same standard we (or the EU I should say) would expect to happen here (or in the EU), then it can't go. It also imposes extra notification requirements on mixed polymer loads - again aimed at making sure stuff is as recyclable as possible (single type of plastic = higher quality raw material) and as free from contamination as possible.
And that is the clean end of the waste we export. We also export rather a lot (2.5million tonnes per year- about half of what we produce) of something the industry calls RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) to Europe (mainly Holland and Sweden). It is all the crap that is too contaminated to recyle, that is squished into bales and wrapped with sileage wrap, put on lorries (quite a bit of it) and sent through Dover (main port). The government (and industry) will tell you this is a waste recovery activity because the energy is recovered by the incinerator it goes to and used in local heating schemes or in electricity generation.
Sorry for the diversion from eating insect protein...just another example of a problem we are not really dealing with and expecting someone else to provide a solution to!
Stop thinking about my rabbit hole you naughty manThanks for dragging us back out of Bashamwonderland's rabbit hole.
You are awful....Stop thinking about my rabbit hole you naughty man