The Real Junk Food Project (RJFP), an organization that combats food waste, recently opened what is calls “the warehouse,” a supermarket in the English town of Pudsey. Unlike your typical grocer, it sells other stores’ surplus food for a “pay as you feel” price, The Independent reports. An investigation by the Evening Standard revealed that supermarkets in the United Kingdom throw out a shocking $299 million worth of edible food a year. Another problem, he says, is that large supermarkets try to overstock items so that their shelves never look bare. “[T]hese big retailers are so big they can afford to sell only a proportion of ‘units’ and discard the rest,” Fearnley-Whittingstall writes.

Source: Huffington Post September 23, 2016 18:45 UTC