Greggs and M&S join the war on food wastage
The food giants have teamed up with a community fridge scheme
FOOD giants Greggs and Marks and Spencer have joined the war against food waste.
The Guardian reported that the firms are now sending any of their edible leftover food to solidarity or community fridges.
The fridges can be used by anyone who wants to donate to them or take from in a community and similar schemes in Germany, Spain and India have proven popular.
Greggs and M&S have now begun to donate leftover food to a community fridge in the town of Frome in Somerset.
However, there are rules when it comes to what can be left in Frome’s fridge, including no raw meat or fish.
The fridge is also checked and cleaned regularly by a team of volunteers.
Sheila Gore, owner of local store Frome Wholefoods, who regularly donates to the fridge, told the Guardian that the scheme had gone “from something a bit weird to being normal.”
She added: “You can’t always predict fluctuations and variations so when you don’t get it right the fridge is very useful.”
More and more big business are now waking up to the problem of food wastage, and increasingly getting involved with local food schemes.
Many companies are now using apps as well as finding other clever ways of cutting down on the amount of food that ends up in the bin.
Shockingly, it has been revealed that the EU wastes a whopping 89 million tonnes of food every year – with the UK thought to be responsible for more waste than any other member.