Make it Illegal for Supermarkets to Throw Away Food

anotheruser

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124696

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LadyDee

anotheruser wrote: »

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124696

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And when they do have to dispose of wasted food, get enormous fines, who do you think will pay for it?

HappyMJ

anotheruser wrote: »

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124696

Need to sign to show parliament what the people want.

No...thank you.

If you've seen the quality of the food they actually throw in the bin you will understand why. It's rubbish....it cannot be sold. Why buy a bruised apple when a perfectly fresh one is sitting there? The bruised one goes in the bin. That apple cannot be given away to the homeless or the hungry....and who really genuinely in this country is homeless and hungry anyway. Illegal immigrants???

Every single person in this country legally is entitled to emergency housing and enough benefits sufficient to buy food. If they've been sanctioned for not doing something then an emergency food parcel is available...but that food parcel generally consists of food that has a shelf life. I would never want the food destined for the bin to be given to them. If food can't be sold for 10% of it's shelf price then no one wants it.

NectarCollector

we can throw away up to 2-3 bin bags full of food a day at our shop. Simply because it has reached it's use by date.

The problem is not the quality of the food going in the bin... it's the fact that our head office sends us so much food on our deliveries, we simply have no chance of selling it all in time as our delivery system is completely automated. in theory if an item goes through the till, another 1 of those would be added to the next delivery.. a good theory but it seems like we sell 1, we get sent 5 more.

In a previous shop I worked in, we actually told our suppliers what we wanted to order as we knew how much of it we could sell each day, and wastage there was maybe half a bin bag full a day at most.

It's a case of head office telling us we have to sell more food, and that they are going tosend us the more food we have to sell. We have no control over what gets delivered to us anymore

oldandhappy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets

antrobus

anotheruser wrote: »

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124696

Need to sign to show parliament what the people want.

This is what the petition says

...The House of Lords conducted an inquiry into the amount of food wasted in EU and from that inquiry, it emerged that a staggering 200m tonnes of food is wasted by Asda, Co-operative Food, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.

The actual amount of food wasted by the UK retail and wholesale sector is in fact a staggering 0.2 million tonnes. So they have only overstated the figure by a factor of 1,000.

See here http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/node/2163 or here http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/UK%20Estimates%20October%2015%20%28FINAL%29_0.pdf

Somebody has got their decimal point in the wrong place.:)

I don't know about making it a a criminal offence for supermarkets to throw away or destroy unsold food, but I certainly think that it should be a criminal offence to organise or campaign for a petition based on such an outrageous lie.

P.S. I should explain that it is not the House of Lord's fault. The very first sentence of their report reads "It has been estimated that 89 million tonnes of food are wasted each year in the EU" so it's pretty difficult to see what kind of blithering idiocy was involved in believing that the report was saying that UK supermarkets alone could possibly be responsible for over twice that level of waste.

glentoran99

and if this food that's "off" poisons someone, who pays?

HappyMJ

glentoran99 wrote: »

and if this food that's "off" poisons someone, who pays?

Well considering it's proposed the food given away on the last day of it's use by date and most probably not stored properly in a fridge until the person can fetch it the next day should only go to the homeless they'll get sick and they'll have a bed for the night whilst they recover....paid for by the NHS and therefore the taxpayer.

What do you do with unsold sandwiches at closing time. A shop is in business to sell sandwiches. If they were to be forced to start discounting them by 90% an hour before closing some customers will get wise to that and only buy sandwiches with one hour to go before closing therefore depriving the shop of a full price sale. Not going to work.

anotheruser

The problem is greed.

Supermarkets should force people to miss out. It's not going to kill you if you can't buy some bread from one supermarket because they didn't order as much from the supplier to minimise any fines.

People these days are too greedy and want exactly what they want, when they want. We could do with a good world war to show people you can't just have anything at the push of a button - we've become too comfortable as a generation.

p00hsticks

The petition detail doesn't actually talk about food that exceeds it's sell by date. it says "Let us make it a criminal offence for supermarkets to dispose of food just because it is not cosmetically perfect."

But my understanding was that supermarkets generally won't buy such mis-shapen food from their suppliers in the first place.

robin58

anotheruser wrote: »

The problem is greed.

Supermarkets should force people to miss out. It's not going to kill you if you can't buy some bread from one supermarket because they didn't order as much from the supplier to minimise any fines.

People these days are too greedy and want exactly what they want, when they want. We could do with a good world war to show people you can't just have anything at the push of a button - we've become too comfortable as a generation.

Don't worry about the world war issue.

If Trump gets to be President, that will be a forgone conclusion.

Joking apart, I was brought up as a kid in the 60's and my mother who lived through world war 2, was still frugal about what she used and how she used things up.

You are right, it is a 'I want it now' generation.