Watch: Shop stocked with food rejected by supermarkets opens in Sneinton to cut waste

A shop selling out-of-date and surplus supermarket food has opened in Sneinton.

Foodprint, on Sneinton Road, has been set up to help cut food waste and has shelves stocked full of products past their best before dates or which have packaging errors.

The shop is run by volunteers and was set up after an online fundraising campaign generated £9,000 to cover basic opening costs.

Products on sale include tins of veg selling for 25p which would have fetched 55p on a regular supermarket shelf.

Co-founder Phoebe Dunklin said: “We have tons of food in the shop and in the back of the store.

“We realised a couple of years ago that there are two huge problems in the UK – one is that 10 million tons of food are thrown away every year, and about six million of those are edible.

“The other is that there are huge levels of food poverty, so we wanted to try to tackle both of those problems at once.”

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