Surplus food put to good use with Tesco Community Cookery School programme

Tesco has announced a new training programme, Tesco Community Cookery School with Jamie Oliver, which will teach over 1,000 community cooks on how best to use surplus food donations to help stop good food going to waste.

Tesco has been focusing on reducing food waste for over decade.

In 2009, Tesco stopped sending food to landfill and in 2013, became the first retailer to publish its food waste data.

In 2016, Tesco made a commitment that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste in its operations. Since then, every week it donates 300,000 meals of surplus food to over 7,000 different community and charity groups.