Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts
A new report, "Supermarkets Fail to Make the Grade in Reducing Food Waste," scores the 10 largest grocery stores on how they handle food waste. No store got an A, but Walmart got a B.
Any dumpster diver can tell you: Grocery stores throw away a lot of food.
But food discarded off the shelf is just one way that grub gets trashed. There's other waste along a grocery store's supply chain —rejected crops at farms, for example — that's often overlooked. So The Center for Biological Diversity and The "Ugly" Fruit and Veg Campaign recently asked the 10 largest U.S. supermarkets how they handle food waste, and gave each store's efforts a letter grade.
Scores for each store appeared in the , "Supermarkets Fail to Make the Grade in Reducing
