The Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!) has attacked UK's leading supermarket Tesco after it said it burnt waste meat for energy. Tesco has claimed that 1,700 of its 2,306 UK stores have diverted 100 percent of its waste from landfills and now are turning 5,000 tonnes of meat that has passed its sell-by date into about 2500 mega watt hours of renewable electricity.

In its media release Viva! argued that “to turn this wasted meat into power might seem like a good idea at first". But “whatever savings are made by turning this meat into energy is more than voided by the huge amount of greenhouses gases generated by the farming and production of the meat in the first place. Tesco should take a long hard look at their wasteful practices."

As the Association of Organics Recycling pointed out, Tesco company is currently working towards divert 95 percent of waste from landfill across all of its UK sites by 2010 and a spokeswoman said the company was "well on course to achieve its ultimate goal". Tesco is currently running more than 3,500 projects to reduce, reuse and recycle and reach its 100 percent diversion target.

Quelle: Recyclingportal

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