Tesco says almost 30,000 tonnes of food ‘wasted’

Supermarket giant Tesco has revealed it threw away almost 30,000 tonnes of food in the first six months of the year.

Using its own data and industry-wide figures, it has also estimated that, across the UK food industry, 68% of salad to be sold in bags was wasted - 35% of it thrown out by customers.

And it estimated that 40% of apples and 47% of bakery items were wasted.

Wow what a waste, and this is just what one supermarket threw away in six months so I dread to think how much will be wasted by all the supermarkets in 2013.

What makes this worse is that there are plenty of things that can be done to reduce and begin to eradicate this problem that up until now have clearly been ignored, like for instance once the food they, Tesco and the other big supermarkets, sell has reached its best before date, instead of throwing it away they could give it to a food bank.

They could also offer smaller amounts of certain items, with some there’s the option of buying 10+ or none at all.

Of course it’s not just the supermarkets it’s also people who shop there and throw stuff out despite it still being fine.

Tesco has announced it will be looking at ways to reduce the waste so finally something is now starting to be done, belatedly as usual, but nonetheless something will start to be done.

Until next year when the exact same story will most probably surface again.