Mr. David Flynn:

As I said in my opening statement, above all else, prevention is absolutely the No. 1 area in the waste hierarchy where much of the policy and a lot of our work is based.

Then, as regards reuse, you would look to redistribute the food to beneficial human use and then animal feed.

As regards recycling, there is a lot of embedded nutrient and a lot of embedded energy in food, so if it cannot be used for human consumption through redistribution of surplus food and cannot be used in animal feed or for some other beneficial, value-added product, you are then into recycling and recovery. Ahead of disposal, you would really want to look at things that recover that embedded energy and those embedded nutrients from it. Anaerobic digestion is one way of doing that. It is not the only way, and you can have composting. Anaerobic digestion has a role to play. As we said earlier, we need to be conscious that it does not become too easy an outlet for food waste, that there are not - I think someone used the phrase "feed the beast" earlier - incentives produced such that food waste then displaces higher elements in the food hierarchy such as redistribution to human nutrition and prevention. The system needs to be carefully constructed in that regard. Anaerobic digestion absolutely has a role to play. It is producing green energy, recovering nutrients and recovering the embedded energy in that product. Again, we need to be sure that the outputs from it are used beneficially in that it is displacing rather than adding to nutrients that are being added to land. It needs to be managed carefully but it certainly has a role to play and is technology that-----