Deborah Manning – Fighting food waste

Ever wondered what happens to bananas at your local supermarket when they get too many brown spots to sell, or tomatoes that are too soft around the edges? If your supermarket partners with a food rescue organisation, perfectly edible items like these—and other surplus stock—are collected and redistributed to places like food banks to ensure…

Would you rather the fresh and free-of-charge food pictured below nourishes those in need or goes to waste in landfill? It seems like a far too obvious question, doesn’t it? But maybe not. Because there is a danger that in 2025, freely available food like this will decay in landfill, rather than easing the devastating…