The UK’s first food waste supermarket opens

[Cliffy]

The UK’s first food waste supermarket has opened in Pudsey, near Leeds.
Food waste campaigners from the Real Junk Food Project have opened "the warehouse", a store on the Grangefield Industrial Estate. Customers are invited to shop for food thrown out by supermarkets and other businesses.
The food is priced on a "pay as you feel" basis and has already helped desperate families struggling to feed their children.

Adam Smith, founder of the Real Junk Food Project, which is behind the food waste supermarket, told The Independent that there are plans to open a warehouse selling surplus produce in every city in the UK.
The initiative started as "boutiques" or food waste stalls selling produce in Real Junk Food Project cafes.



“We’re about to start in Sheffield and Bradford,” he said. “Every city will now obtain central storage and run a ‘people’s supermarket’ as well as Fuel for School.”


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[Danbones]

jeez
I hope that doesn't catch on here
we count on catching as much of that as we can to use in homeless shelters and soup kitchens and foodbanks

 

[Blackleaf]

Thank God we're leaving the EU, famous for its food waste - Butter Mountain, Wheat Mountain, Wine Lake...

 

[petros]

jeez
I hope that doesn't catch on here
we count on catching as much of that as we can to use in homeless shelters and soup kitchens and foodbanks

It's been here for at least a decade.