EFFPA has called on MEPs in the Environmental Committee to tackle the environmentally unsustainable practice where valuable feedstuffs are removed from the food chain in the course of in the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive. EFFPA members are facing distorted competition due to national tax incentives for bioenergy producers to burn energy-rich former foodstuffs […]
EFFPA hopes the European Commission will hold its word and relaunch a more ambitious proposal of the Waste Legislative Package by the end of 2015. The original proposal, published in July 2014 and withdrawn in December 2014, contained a definition of food waste that specifically excluded food losses destined to animal feed to be considered as […]
On 31 October 2014 EFFPA President Paul Featherstone presented the contribution of the former foodstuff processors sector towards reducing food waste at the 2nd FUSIONS European Stakeholder Platform in Brussels. For EFFPA it was a positive experience to showcase its expertise in animal feed solutions for food losses to an audience of food waste experts. […]