More than 800,000 meals each year that would otherwise have been banished to the bin will now be distributed among London’s most needy.
The FareShare Community Food Network has successfully secured a £362,000 grant from the London Waste Recycling Board to divert over 300,000 tons of edible products from landfill sites.
Food that has exceeded its shelf life or no longer has a commercial value will be delivered to charities, the elderly and the homeless living within the north-west of the capital.
The scheme was unveiled as part of a three-day conference instigated by Mayor of London Boris Johnson in order to address the issues surrounding municipal waste.
Other measures the UK has pushed to adopt in order to reduce the amount of food being disregarded to landfill include the option to use it as a source of biomass.
The chancellor Alistair Darling recently announced proposals that would see those who fail to recycle their left over food slapped with a penalty fine.
Recycling food material for the purpose of bioenergy could therefore create new processing facilities across the UK in order to cope with the waste handling revolution.
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