Unsold food that is safe to eat will be donated to local community organisations at over 500 Morrisons supermarkets.
After being the focus of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s War on Waste programme on BBC1 last night, the retailer has now announced that a trial at 100 stores in Yorkshire and the North East will be extended across the UK in early 2016.
Morrisons group corporate services director Andrew Clappen said: “We don’t like the idea of good food going to waste and this programme will ensure that we find a home for the small amount of unsold or used food in our stores.”
A network of community organisations will now be built that will work with the supermarket to redistribute the food.