Supermarkets' multiple buy deals 'lead to food waste'
Supermarkets should scrap 'buy one get one free' offers to help end the 'morally repugnant' waste of millions of tonnes of food, a House of Lords committee report has said.
Supermarkets offers lead to 'morally repugnant' waste
Supermarket "buy one get one free" offers encourage "excess consumption" according to a report on food waste by the Lords EU Committee.
Describing food waste in the EU and UK as "morally repugnant", the committee called on supermarkets to rethink the deals.
The report said that 15 million tonnes of food are dumped each year in the UK and at least 90 million tonnes across the EU as a whole.
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