London’s First ‘Social Supermarket’ Turns Food Waste Into Job Training
dimanche, mai 31st, 2015Whether it is selling ugly produce to turning out-of-date food into electricty, we’ve seen plenty of ways that supermarkets can cut back on the mountains of food waste they throw out each year.
A new “social supermarket” in London is taking a different and entirely logical angle: turning food waste into affordable food. And job training and life skills too.
Community Shops are a social enterprise model that utilizes food that supermarkets can’t use—often because of short shelf-life or minor labeling errors—and sells them in a typical retail environment, but specifically on a membership-only basis to individuals who are on unemployment benefits or other forms of public assistance.