Taking out of date food from shop car park?

Solstice_3

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If they weren't covered in bleach, I think we can safely assume that somebody in the store specifically put them out for others to take.

Don't lose sleep over it.


I got a whole trolley of food, household products and suchlike from a supermarket once - I found an abandoned trolley with it in, called the store and they said it was obviously a push out theft, the thieves would have taken meat, alcohol and electricals, and as they would only be forced to destroy it all if it were returned, I may as well keep what I want.



Some staff still think for themselves, you see.

I work for the company you are talking about and they don't cover it with bleach but they do usually expect us to put "waste" in locked bins. We send some waste to a company that reuses it, the rest I am afraid I am not sure what happens to it. We have a homeless guy who goes through our bins and we are expected to stop him.

So no the company wouldn't have put it out for people to take, I think there is some sort of H&S law against it but they don't contaminate it either. Anyway I wouldn't worry about it too much xx

Solstice_3

JohnyBM wrote: »

Well that can not be good for the Earth. How does that work in reality, how can they seperate the packaging?

Sounds like a smokescreen to me.

You are still better of liberating the waste than letting it damage the Earth.

The guy that picks up our meat waste takes it in packing and separates it all, can't remember what he uses it for though.

Most of our waste is damaged goods, packaging damaged and the food has gone off or the meat has turned. We reduce down to 75% and the further at the very end of the day and most, if not all of it sells.

Domfrizby

Solstice_3 wrote: »

The guy that picks up our meat waste takes it in packing and separates it all, can't remember what he uses it for though.

Most of our waste is damaged goods, packaging damaged and the food has gone off or the meat has turned. We reduce down to 75% and the further at the very end of the day and most, if not all of it sells.

What happens to the waste in the end? Most supermarket waste does indeed end up on landfill.

Solstice_3

Does it not get sent to composting places now - it is food. Though yeah Supermarkets aren't the best for being environmentally aware.

Domfrizby

Solstice_3 wrote: »

Does it not get sent to composting places now - it is food. Though yeah Supermarkets aren't the best for being environmentally aware.

Most of it is dumped in packets, how can they separate all the plastic and all? Or is the truth it all ends up on landfill?