Was reading an article about a café nearby that aims to reduce food waste by 'rescuing' food rejected by shops and turning it into meals. During lockdown they've shifted their focus to a kind of meals-on-wheels service to help vulnerable households. All very laudable and impressive.
But the terrifying bit is their organiser's claim that they had 3.5 tonnes of food from one retailer in the first 8 days of June, simply because head office sent it to a warehouse hub that didn't have enough refrigerated units to store it properly. So it all got given away. Good for the charity, but this can't be a sensible way of managing a supply chain, can it?
A good, if long, article about the organisation here, for those interested: vocal.media/feast/where-help-and-hope-are-on-the-menu