Pay as you Feel Cafe's.
They intersect food from restaurants and supermarket's that is going to be wasted- past its best before date but not it's use by date so all the food is still perfectly good but will be wasted, and cook it in their cafe to give to people for free, or for a donation of however much they can pay.
Skip Diving.
More extreme version, physically climbing into bins behind restaurants and supermarkets to find food that is still edible. Can get arrested for this but it's better for the environment than wasting all the food.
These facts were found on: The Real Junk Food Project.com http://www.therealjunkfoodproject.co.uk/
The problem, causes and solution
Food is wasted throughout the supply chain. Supermarket's aesthetic standards mean that in the U.K, over 40% of vegetables are discarded before leaving the farm.
There are strict food labelling laws that mean perfectly healthy edible food is being mindlessly binned at every stage of the distribution chain.
Food waste is a symptom of a much bigger problem that can only be addressed by re-evaluating our food production and distribution system.
WRAP estimate that food distribution and retail generates 4.3 million tonnes of food waste each year in the UK, whilst simultaneously over 900,000 people were regularly using food banks in 2014.
There are strict food labelling laws that mean perfectly healthy edible food is being mindlessly binned at every stage of the distribution chain.
Food waste is a symptom of a much bigger problem that can only be addressed by re-evaluating our food production and distribution system.
WRAP estimate that food distribution and retail generates 4.3 million tonnes of food waste each year in the UK, whilst simultaneously over 900,000 people were regularly using food banks in 2014.
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