The Evening Standard launches 'Food for London' campaign in order to tackle the capital's food poverty problem
The Evening Standard has launched a campaign dubbed ‘Food for London’ which aims to tackle the issue of food wastage and poverty by redistributing surplus fresh food from UK producers to those in need.
The initiative comes on the back of research carried out by the title which found that the UK throws away 10 million tonnes of fresh produce each year, but an estimated 400,000 Londoners suffer from “severe” food poverty.
The investigation also revealed that 97 per cent of surplus food from supermarkets that is perfectly healthy for human consumption is currently being sent for animal feed Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
