Cambridge Food Stores Hiding Their Bins.
Hungry Freegan | 10.07.2013 23:40 | Social Struggles | Cambridge | World
This country sends to Landfill at least four million tons of food every year, with the main culprits of this crime against the planet being retail outlets who are happy to fill to the top their bins with perfectly edible food rather than discount it or give it to charities.
It is also worth noting that our tax system encourages this obscene wastage by allowing businesses to offset their binned food as a tax loss.
Now in Cambridge they pile further insult upon an already struggling community by actively concealing these very same bins.
Here is a list of those local shops that are now known to be actively concealing their food bins:
The Cooperative, Mill Road
The Cooperative, Hills Road (also a padlocked gate, barbed wire fencing)
The Co-Operative, Histon Road
The Cooperative, Milton Road (also a locked steel side gate)
The Cooperative, Chesterton Road (concealed bins since opening new store)
Mill Road Tescos
Hills Road Tescos
Waitrose, Burliegh Street
(also an approximately seven foot high motorised sliding gate with spikes on top plus CCTV)
Budgens, Arbury Court (Steel enclosure plus Cable Lock)
If you know of any other stores in Cambridge that are now concealing their food bins please add these names and locations to this article as a comment, as it is time to hold them to account for what they doing to their community.
Hungry Freegan
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Makes me angry
11.07.2013 00:31
Try speaking to some of the workers about it when the managers aren't around them, if they are anything like I was they probably also see the situation as insane and will be willing to help you.
Former shop worker
Get the price reduced food
12.07.2013 02:35
mr phil
Added bonus
12.07.2013 02:42
mr phil