Hugh's War on Waste

Sue14

Puffinbertha wrote: »

I really could weep seeing all the perfectly good food being binned by the supermarkets as shown on tonight's programme.

I was very nearly in tears while watching it tonight, all that food being wasted while there are people dying of starvation, would it really be that difficult for them to give the excess to charity? I think the supermarkets should be fined at least 10 times the amount that they waste, maybe then they'd not be so quick to waste food.

drinkupretty wrote: »

Who just bins perfectly good clothes? If I have clothes I no longer like or do not fit into I take them to the charity shop, always have done even as a teenager.

Me too, I don't even like putting manky clothes in the bin, they either go in the textile recycling bin at the dump, or I put them in the rag bag for CS. Decent clothes either go on ebay or to CS.

Puffinbertha wrote: »

If I can't re-purpose/upcycle my clothes they go to the charity shop. Love that Hugh's favourite trousers are 10 years old. My favourite jeans are 20 years old but have to confess I did buy two pairs!

I think my last pair of jeans (£3 value ones from Mr T), were at least 5-6 years old when I sent them to the CS (because I'd lost weight and they were too big for me), but there was still plenty of life in them. I still have some clothes that I bought in the 70's, lol!

drinkupretty wrote: »

Morrison's selling wonky veg as "ugly veg" and charging the same price for them, of course they will sell less if you market them as ugly and charge the same for them

I'm not sure I'd want to pay the same price for the wonky veg, but put it out cheaper and I'd always buy that, because to me it's common sense to not pay more than you need to for anything. There will always be people who would pay more for 'the best', but equally there are plenty of people who can't afford to pay the higher prices, and would be able to have more veg if there was a cheaper option.

Dasa

Justamum wrote: »

The links are on this website, but I've tried and it's struggling to load them. Possibly heavy traffic because of the programme.

ETA - Don't go via the link I've posted as it just goes straight back the BBC. This link works

Thanks. Have signed up.

moneyistooshorttomention

Dasa wrote: »

Just watched it. Criminal the amount of food wasted. Good to see the likes of Waitrose getting together with the skip raiders instead of prosecuting them.

Well - Waitrose does have to more than other supermarkets (ie because it trades somewhat on being more "ethical", etc).

Yep...duly signed up that link given. Couldn't make up my mind between my normal 3 supermarkets or the 2 I use now I've moved - so ticked all 5 of them.

kaya

Yet another multi millionaire tax avoiding posh boy telling the rest of us how we should live and making a small fortune from it at the same time, at least Jamie o seems to be up front with tax unlike this one who was caught out investing in some tax avoidance film making scheme

Pollycat

kaya wrote: »

Yet another multi millionaire tax avoiding posh boy telling the rest of us how we should live and making a small fortune from it at the same time, at least Jamie o seems to be up front with tax unlike this one who was caught out investing in some tax avoidance film making scheme

Don't you think he has a point about waste though?

Personally speaking - as someone who throws very little food away and takes all my unwanted clothing/bric-a-bac to charity shops - I don't need anybody to educate me about waste.
But it's clear that many people are clueless about 'use by' dates and shopping in general.

angela110660

what was also sad and thought provoking was the item on BBC news immediately afterwards about there being another famine in Ethiopia due to crop failures.

Justamum

kaya wrote: »

Yet another multi millionaire tax avoiding posh boy telling the rest of us how we should live and making a small fortune from it at the same time, at least Jamie o seems to be up front with tax unlike this one who was caught out investing in some tax avoidance film making scheme

You often find that rich people are very frugal. If everyone was more frugal they'd surely have a bit more money to spend.

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The thing I found really annoying other than the netted courgettes being labelled as 'ugly' which is a real off putter to start with is that they looked to be very much older courgettes in the nets which are a very different beastie to a nice freshly picked courgette, regardless of their outer appearance, I wondered fleetingly and possibly unfairly if M*rrisons had put older and gone over courgettes in their 'ugly' nets to prove their point that people would not buy less attractive fruit and veg? I don't give a monkeys for the cosmetic appearance of what I buy, I want to eat it not look at it but I wouldn't buy gone past its best pristinely beautiful veg no matter how nice and uniform it looked on the shelf. We grow courgettes and get the wonky and bent ones regularly but they get picked and used while they are still young and crisp and are exactly the same in flavour and texture as the straight ones are however, leave them on the plant because they are 'missed' under the leaves and pick them when they are older and woolly inside with a tough outer shell and they are not nice at all. It didn't look like a level playing field to me, I might be wrong though!

Bathory

I've just caught up with watching both episodes of this - unbelievable, the amount of food and clothes just binned when many go hungry and are strapped for cash.

One of our neighbours use to 'rescue' bread, cakes, scones, buns etc from a bakery. It was produce that was due to go out of date at the end of the day and was destined to be thrown. They had so much stuff sometimes that they couldn't possibly eat it all so use to dish the surplus out to others. One day up steps new manager and put a stop to it. His reason being - "I'd rather bin it all than just give it away".

Rainy-Days

Justamum wrote: »

The links are on this website, but I've tried and it's struggling to load them. Possibly heavy traffic because of the programme.

ETA - Don't go via the link I've posted as it just goes straight back the BBC. This link works

Thanks for link I signed it this morning!

I agree with you MrsLW - they did those courgettes deliberately and why did they not put them at say 65pence instead of the same price as the perfect courgettes. Very cleaver that just trying to make a point.

Well, it won't wash with me I have not stepped foot in Morrisons since and nor will I. I went ballistic when i saw Hugh sat at the table with the farmers and they had rafts and rafts of paperwork from them reducing down quantities - I hope they sue Morrisons.

Dispicable company - Tesco's are just as bad their practices towards farmers is horrendous, but Morrisons tried to play a different public relations game and now they have been found wanting.