Forest Recycling Project is delighted to announce the reopening of a food waste pop-up shop at the old Leytonstone Police Station.
In partnership with the Best Before Project, the initiative involves distributing food that is past its best before date for free. Customers are allowed to take as much food as they want and are invited to donate as much or as little as they want towards the project.
Almost 50% of the total amount of food thrown away in the UK comes from our homes. We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK, and more than half of this is food and drink we could have eaten.
Manager Voytek Stando, 48, said: “People just don’t think, they just throw food away because of a date on the label without even checking if its okay, when there are some places even in this country where people are starving.
“We want to start a new fashion about not wasting food that’s edible; we want to influence people’s opinions.”
A part from reducing food waste the aim of the project is to educate the community around best before labelling and the stigma surrounding best before products.
“A vast majority of offered foods will be past the ‘best before’ date. Our initiative, apart from providing people with affordable products, will have a strong educational character, showing in practice that this sort of mark on the label is not an expiry date, only an indicator of possible quality”
In addition social enterprise Bright Sparks have also occupied the ground floor selling high end reclaimed furniture. Additionally a number of social entrpreneurs have found temporary residency on the top floor upcycling reclaimed materials and furniture. One such entreprenuer is Chris Barrett of ThinkFound who out of reclaimed wood creates bespoke furniture pieces including tables, desks and chairs http://www.thinkfound.co.uk/.
The shop is open Monday- Friday from 11am to 6pm and the project is expected to be open until the end of July.
Full address;
Waltham House,
11 Kirkdale Road,
London, E11 1HP
For more information please call 0208 539 3856 or email [email protected]
April 6th, 2016 → 1:12 pm @ Nilesh