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Old 08-12-2014, 15:25
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Morrisons threw out 10,000 pasties because delivery man arrived late: 4.3million tonnes of edible food thrown away every year by supermarkets, restaurants and makers

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Old 08-12-2014, 15:34
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Scandalous, although office waste bothers me personally more, every week on a Friday my job is to clean out the office fridges of stuff out of date or not labelled with anyone's name. Really upsets me to see meats, yogurts, butter, cream cakes , etc all chucked out. Not allowed to take it home or I would use it up it has to go in the bins.
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Old 08-12-2014, 19:23
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I think there is selective reporting there.

I've seen programmes on the issue and there are several different issues.


Yes, one stupid one is that supermarkets not taking stock from the producer because it is the wrong size and colour.
It's a shame that the public has been convinced into only wanting perfect looking produce.


Alot of the surplus will go back into the field as fertilizer or for animal feed.


On the supermarket waste there is problably h&s issues. There was a programme about Tesco throwing out tonnes of food because a fridge broke down.
Food banks and others wanted to take the food. Tesco couldn't give it away because if any one got sick they would be liable.


and there's other reasons. It's just not a black and white issue. A story about chucking 10,000 pasties because a delivery is late is either hyperbole, not the full story or a very stupid decision by the person in charge.
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Old 08-12-2014, 20:12
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Yes, one stupid one is that supermarkets not taking stock from the producer because it is the wrong size and colour.
It's a shame that the public has been convinced into only wanting perfect looking produce...
Did one of the supermarkets chains a few years not back run a campaign about this. Their premise was there was nowt wrong with the fruit / veg, it was just oddly shaped and as such they could offer it at lower price?
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Old 08-12-2014, 20:58
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Did one of the supermarkets chains a few years not back run a campaign about this. Their premise was there was nowt wrong with the fruit / veg, it was just oddly shaped and as such they could offer it at lower price?
Possibly. I does ring a bell.

I can just imagine someone looking a 4 pack of large, glistening apples on a tray, shrinkwrapped for £3 and then a bag of 10 for £1 but different sizes and colours.
Probaly thinking i'm going to look like a chavvy cheapskate if I buy the dodgy bag of 10.
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Old 09-12-2014, 13:13
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Did one of the supermarkets chains a few years not back run a campaign about this. Their premise was there was nowt wrong with the fruit / veg, it was just oddly shaped and as such they could offer it at lower price?
Which a lot of people will not buy. supermarkets are not all to blame, the public is as well as they have become to used to things being perfect.
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Old 09-12-2014, 14:09
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Incredibly wasteful, they could have given them to the homeless or something
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Old 10-12-2014, 09:59
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As with a lot of stories on MailOnLine the last paragraph pretty much contradicts the sensational headline:

"Of the 10,000 missing pasties, a spokesman for Morrisons said: ‘We are puzzled by this claim because it’s our policy not to turn away fresh food from our depots.

'We’d very much like to look at this further but it’s difficult when the report has no record of the time or location of the delivery, nor details of the supplier.’"

So no real evidence that 10,000 pasties really did end up in the bin then.
That having been said it is scandalous that so much food is rejected by supermarkets. The real problem for farmers is that the supermarkets often over order and then when the time comes they can reject perfectly good food for fairly spurious reasons - the farmer is then left with a crop that he can't sell in the time left to him.
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Old 10-12-2014, 13:17
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Incredibly wasteful, they could have given them to the homeless or something
According to the article they did. But the article appears to have no sources and may be completely made up.
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Old 19-01-2015, 19:32
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Did one of the supermarkets chains a few years not back run a campaign about this. Their premise was there was nowt wrong with the fruit / veg, it was just oddly shaped and as such they could offer it at lower price?
Jamie Oliver tackled Ugly Veg in his new series. ASDA did a trial run of selling it.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/j...mand/59601-001
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Old 19-01-2015, 19:59
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Jamie Oliver tackled Ugly Veg in his new series. ASDA did a trial run of selling it.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/j...mand/59601-001
What I didn't understand about that was that the "ugly" veg were being thrown away as the supermarkets wouldn't buy them. So what about all of the vegetables used by the processed food industry? Surely people wouldn't know or care if "ugly" veg ended up in their soups, ready meals or pies. I thought that's where the non-perfect vegetables from farms ended up rather than being binned or fed to animals.
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Old 19-01-2015, 22:34
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I don't understand stuff having a display till. So display till 21st, best before/use by the 22nd. It has to be took of the shelf a day before it goes out of date. That's tons of waste there.
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Old 21-01-2015, 20:35
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In ep3 they meet a couple of guys who are setting up cafes using out of date food (but not past the use by date - must be a business health requirement as past use date food can be fine to eat).



Good plan and could save a lot of food waste but maybe i'm a bit cynical thinking that when they say they want cafes all over the country they're acutally a couple of entrepreneurs who've hit up on a good idea and can make a load of money from it.

If it was set up as a non-profit charity to feed the poor/homeless/etc. then that would be great.

http://www.therealjunkfoodproject.co.uk/
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/j...mand/59601-003
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Old 24-01-2015, 10:06
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Why are they looking paypal donations for their business? Especially when a lot of the food is donated to them anyway?
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Old 24-01-2015, 10:17
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Why are they looking paypal donations for their business? Especially when a lot of the food is donated to them anyway?
Presumably because they aren't a "business" but a not-for-profit social enterprise.
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