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09-21-2016, 08:02 PM
First food waste supermarket opens in the UK
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A food waste supermarket - the first in the UK - has opened near Leeds and it allows people to "pay as they feel" for the goods by giving time, money or skills.*
The "warehouse", a store on the Grangefield Industrial Estate in Pudsey, is the latest invention of The Real Junk Food Project, which is behind food banks and 120 waste food cafes across the world.*
The project receives on average between two and 10 tonnes of food at its warehouse every day - just a tiny fraction of the staggering 10 million tonnes of food and drink waste the UK generates (http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/all-sectors) every year.*
"Usually we donate it [leftover food] to local schools but over the summer we ended up with all this surplus and we wondered how we would get rid of it," Chef Adam Smith, who founded the project, told the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-37418336). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/food-waste-supermarket-uk-/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A food waste supermarket - the first in the UK - has opened near Leeds and it allows people to "pay as they feel" for the goods by giving time, money or skills.*
The "warehouse", a store on the Grangefield Industrial Estate in Pudsey, is the latest invention of The Real Junk Food Project, which is behind food banks and 120 waste food cafes across the world.*
The project receives on average between two and 10 tonnes of food at its warehouse every day - just a tiny fraction of the staggering 10 million tonnes of food and drink waste the UK generates (http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/all-sectors) every year.*
"Usually we donate it [leftover food] to local schools but over the summer we ended up with all this surplus and we wondered how we would get rid of it," Chef Adam Smith, who founded the project, told the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-37418336). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/food-waste-supermarket-uk-/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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