The Food Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 have been published.

The Northern Irish Government have passed their food waste regulation.

It advocates separate collection of food waste and the prevention of disposal via the sewer network.

“(2B) It shall, from 1st April 2016, be the duty of any person who controls or manages a
food business that produces controlled waste to take all such measures available as are
reasonable in the circumstances to secure the separate collection of food waste produced by
that food business.

(2F) It shall, from 1st April 2017, be the duty of any person who produces food waste
(other than an occupier of a domestic property as respects the household waste produced on
that property) to ensure that food waste is not deposited in a lateral drain or public sewer, or
in a drain or sewer that connects to a lateral drain or public sewer.”

The Food Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 can be found at:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/14/pdfs/nisr_20150014_en.pdf