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If you saw boxes of mouth-watering fresh produce displayed on rustic benches at a local British shop, you would never guess that the fruit, veg and baked goods were actually saved from the bin.
Yet that s exactly where those crates of food would have ended up, if it weren t for a determined group of volunteers on a mission to feed people, not landfill.
Swapping pints for punnets has pulled in the punters at three locked-down pubs hosting weekly
Food Rescue Hub sessions. And empty beer gardens are proving to be perfect COVID-safe spots to distribute supermarket surplus to anyone who wants to stock their cupboards.
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12:03 PM March 2, 2021
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12:04 PM March 2, 2021
A food rescue hub has been set up at Attimore Hall to help reduce the amount of wasted food in our area
- Credit: Attimore Hall
Swapping pints for punnets has pulled in the punters at three locked-down pubs hosting weekly hubs tackling food waste.
The team don’t know in advance how much or what they will get but they do know they always have enough to go round
- Credit: Attimore Hall
Welwyn Garden City s Attimore Hall has just become the latest pub to offer its beer garden to the Food Rescue Hub, just in time for Food Waste Action Week from March 1-7.