Central England Co-operative and FareShare open new £50k food waste hub
Central England Co-operative has
opened a new £50,000 hub with charity FareShare East Midlands as part of project
to redistribute unsold food to people in need.
The project will see best before food items and non-food goods that cannot be
sold at Food Stores across the country collected by colleagues from the
Society’s Food Distribution Centre in Leicester. They will then be delivered to
the new hub, sorted and then sent out to more than 250 local charities across
the Midlands.
The scheme is being rolled out to more than 200 Food Stores in an effort to
help good causes and reduce food waste.
“Food waste is a topic that
customers and colleagues regularly talk to us about and it is great that our
unsold food will now be benefiting a wide variety of people connected to
hundreds of local charities through this great scheme,” said Central England
Co-op chief executive Martyn Cheatle, who opened the hub at Oaks
Industrial Estate, Narborough.



