Waitrose hails zero food waste to landfill milestone

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Supermarket confirms it stopped sending food waste to landfill three months ahead of schedule

Waitrose has announced that from this week none of the food waste from its stores will be sent to landfill, after confirming all 280 of the company's UK branches are now sending unavoidable waste to anaerobic...

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