Iseult Ward

So at each stage, you can find different reasons.

The food then goes into a supermarket and you'll often, I'm sure lots of people are aware of the reduced to clear oil that you see in Tesco supermarket or other supermarkets now.

And that's food that is still perfectly good.

Any of us can purchase it and consume it that day or freeze it down and use it at a later date.

But they won't be able to sell that the next day.

And therefore, if it's not sold that day, through all their best efforts of reducing it, it will end up going to waste if it's not donated.

And that's also where dates come into consideration.

So you've got use by dates, which are to do with food safety and legally important to follow.

But then there's best before dates, which are quality marks.

So bakery, bread, fruit and veg often have these best before dates, which

literally mean it is better to eat it before this date but it's still okay to eat it afterwards you know and there can be a lot of confusion for people around those different dates so some people might perceive a best before date to actually be a food safety mark and the supermarkets can't won't sell things past their best before date as well so

There's a lot of different reasons and a lot of different complexity, and it is why you do need a variety of different solutions at each stage of the supply chain.

Every stage.

Every stage except for households.

So we're not redistributing food from houses.

Yes.

Which there is a lot of food waste at home.

So hopefully people listening will be more mindful and reduce their own food waste.

But before it gets to the house, every stage we have a solution.

So from the gleaning that we mentioned.