freegan
And what pray tell is a “freegan”?
Glad you asked. Well:
According to a recent report, 70 per cent of produce is dumped by producers and retailers before it even gets to the store. So, will ignoring use-by and sell-by dates help? One quarter of all the food waste that goes into British landfill is reckoned to be edible, and a sizeable portion of that will be food with highly conservative end-of-life dates. Here