This comes at a time when under a cuts obsessed Tory government, which has managed to increase unemployment and force poorer people into using (DWP supported) Food Banks and Soup Kitchens, we have a bizarre situation where despite the fact that so many are struggling to put food on their tables there are now grocery stores actively hiding their food waste bins, which previously could have been relied upon by those with a little initiative to top up their own meagre low income rations.

This country sends to Landfill at least four million tons of food every year, with the main culprits of this crime against the planet being retail outlets who are happy to fill to the top their bins with perfectly edible food rather than discount it or give it to charities.

It is also worth noting that our tax system encourages this obscene wastage by allowing businesses to offset their binned food as a tax loss.

Now in Cambridge they pile further insult upon an already struggling community by actively concealing these very same bins.


Here is a list of those local shops that are now known to be actively concealing their food bins:


The Cooperative, Mill Road

The Cooperative, Hills Road (also a padlocked gate, barbed wire fencing)

The Co-Operative, Histon Road

The Cooperative, Milton Road (also a locked steel side gate)

The Cooperative, Chesterton Road (concealed bins since opening new store)

Mill Road Tescos

Hills Road Tescos

Waitrose, Burliegh Street
(also an approximately seven foot high motorised sliding gate with spikes on top plus CCTV)

Budgens, Arbury Court (Steel enclosure plus Cable Lock)


If you know of any other stores in Cambridge that are now concealing their food bins please add these names and locations to this article as a comment, as it is time to hold them to account for what they doing to their community.