'You could feed a village with this,' said Dave, who's spent time in southern Africa working as a volunteer in primary schools. It is wicked, we all agreed, a vision of consumerism gone wrong. But we couldn't think of a way round it. Clearly the supermarkets cannot sell everything they stock, but throwing out £3,000 worth of good food (when I totted it up, our haul came to £340) every night seems outrageous. Could they do more and throw away less? M&S doesn't have a reduced bin for food that's about to go out-of-date, said Cuthbert: 'They probably don't like the idea of tatty grannies rooting around in their stores.'
And a bit later, this comment helps frame it nicely:
Don't you know that 40 per cent of the food we buy is thrown away? That's the real story
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