Food Waste ( Archived) (42)

A year or two ago there was a TV program showing how much food was been wasted before it left the farms where it was been grown because the shape/size wasn't up to standard. This worked and now the supermarkets are selling this veg/fruit and in the case on the chain we use it is called wonky vegetables etc and are even advertising they sell it on the TV. Also there is food waist bins for each house which goes off to be composted. Also a few years ago the biggest supermarket chain was given a huge kick up their backside when it was exposed how much food was wasted in their warehouses and never got to the shops such as fresh supply of apples put in front of apples already on the shelf's and had gone off in the warehouses.

Not an awful lot sadly

When I first came to China, I was expecting lots of hungry people walking about and small expensive supermarkets, instead I found huge and cheap supermarkets, filled with new produce every day, the out of date thrown into bins and sent to landfills.
I was genuinely appalled at the waste of food when taken out for a dinner, the host would always order far more food than could possibly be eaten, at the end of the meal the wasted food just shoved into a large container to be thrown.
Ten years later not much has changed except in certain areas waste food is bought very cheaply and used by pig farmers as swill. And in some restaurants, you can buy a plastic box and take any leftover food home with you, this happens when it is a family meal, but "Losing face" stops that when a business or similar meal.
I genuinely hope this will improve as time goes by, food waste is one of man's terrible blights on the world and with absolutely no excuse to continue.

It may be because the Store manager is not allowed to sell past a certain time.

My ex father in law was the store manager of a famous UK supermarket, it was in a large city centre, he started leaving a trolly outside at night filled with out of date food, so the homeless etc could help themselves.
But the Head office was scared someone would sue if they became ill, so made him stop that practise. Unbelievable and a reason he took early retirement, so they lost one of their best managers.