Tristram Stuart

Supermarket food waste to power renewable energy instead of tackling food poverty

Matilda Lee

| 23rd December 2011

Food aid charities argue supermarket food waste could help prevent hunger in vulnerable people. Yet supermarkets' anaerobic digestion plans may eclipse food redistribution says Matilda Lee

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