Morrisons is the latest supermarket chain to support the use of surplus food in charitable efforts.
The supermarket has partnered with FoodCycle, a national charity that combines volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces to provide meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation.
FoodCycle have served over 112,000 meals from over 130,000kg of reclaimed surplus food in the last five years alone, a fantastic achievement.
Mary McGrath, CEO of FoodCycle said: "It is fantastic that Morrisons is partnering with FoodCycle. The staff involved have been brilliant: committed to seeing perfectly fresh and tasty food go to good use."
The charity are hoping the partnership will allow for growth of FoodCycle, in order to provide more of their services to those who need it.
Martyn Jones, Group Corporate Services Director of Morrisons, said: "Our colleagues work hard to minimise waste every day and we know that our customers really care about this too. Our partnership with FoodCycle will allow us to find a good home for the small amount of unsold or used food in stores and support FoodCycle’s great work in the community."
Cedrec's take
This is lovely news from Morrisons, and very encouraging to charities, particularly in this case FoodCycle.
FoodCycle claim to be founded on the concept that food waste and food poverty should not exist at the same time.
It is disappointing that, in the UK, food poverty can exist, however with schemes such as those provided by the Morrisons-FoodCycle partnership, it is happy news that unnecessary food waste can be put to good use.
