Garbage Bins: Consumable Food

garbage bins: Dawn Maxwell, Sackville Food waste & want A recent CBC Marketplace report brought to light the alarming amount of food thrown out by large retail chains across the country, according to The Chronicle Herald. It uncovered numerous garbage bins of seemingly consumable food behind a Toronto Walmart. I have read it three times already and it makes me laugh out loud every time. A quick look at the images will undoubtedly leave you searching for some sort of evidence that the food was spoiled. Or perhaps this speaks to a greater issue in this country the 31 billion of food wasted each year, 10 per cent of that by retailers. Perhaps the oranges decomposed entirely on the side we can t see. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.