The homeless in London often go through the bins outside supermarkets at night and find the food that has been binned due to it reaching its sell by date. Supermarkets will go to lengths such as pouring dye over the food in the bins to stop people getting it.
'American based Food Rescue also called food recovery, is the practice of retrieving edible food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to those in need. In most cases, the recovered food is perfectly edible, but not sellable. For example, it’s day old bread or bagged lettuce past its “sell-by” date. Often, it’s in great shape (as you can see in these photos).
The food that recovery agencies pick up is donated by supermarkets, restaurants and farms. In most cases, the rescued food is being saved from the dumpster and, ultimately, the landfill. Food recovered on farms is kept from being plowed under. On farms, the donations often must be harvested, or gleaned, by volunteers.
Businesses that participate receive tax benefits for their donations, freedom from liability lawsuits thanks to the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act and the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from doing the right thing. Heck, you may even receive positive publicity in the local press and on this site.'
www.wastedfood.com
This absolutely has the potential to work in the UK. If shelter, a trusted charity where to help initiate the scheme it would increase media interest and and they could produce a campaign on it, i know from looking on discussion boards and blogs that this is a scheme that would be hugely supported by the public.
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