Shops should give £800m of waste food to needy

Supermarkets should make more of an effort to hand out unsold food to the hungry, a Scottish MSP has said.

He claims Scotland threw away £800 million worth last year and most of it would have ended up landfill sites.

Mike Pringle has asked stores, and the Scottish Government, to back a charity campaign to distribute excess food.

A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "As part of Scotland's first ever national food and drink policy, we now have supermarkets working with us on a range of issues including access to affordable, healthy food for everyone in Scotland.

"We are also already working with charities who do excellent work distributing unsold supermarket food to those in need."

SOURCE: Shops should give £800m of waste food to needy, urges MSP