Food waste 'morally repugnant'

Press Association
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File photo dated 20/05/12 of out-of-date and unopened food from a domestic household thrown away in a dustbin as supermarkets should move away from offers such as
File photo dated 20/05/12 of out-of-date and unopened food from a domestic household thrown away in a dustbin as supermarkets should move away from offers such as

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Supermarkets should move away from offers such as "buy one get one free" to help end the "morally repugnant" waste of millions of tonnes of food, a House of Lords committee has said.

The Lords EU Committee also said big retailers should stop cancelling orders of food from farmers after the produce has been grown, a practice which leads to edible food being ploughed back into the fields. And they said that more unused food should be donated to food banks, rather than sent for composting or landfill.

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