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UK’s “junk food” ad ban: The future of state-corporate cooperation

Kit Knightly Audio Version New Feature! There’s currently an interesting example of the interplay of state and corporate power going on in the UK. It doesn’t seem like important news alongside Ukraine and Monkeypox and school shootings, but for a while now the UK government has planned to implement new rules banning grocery stores from …

Major Supermarket to Eradicate Food Waste by 2017, Give Unsold Food to Charity

In an effort to eradicate all food wasted in its stores and distribution centers, Tesco says that it will work with 5,000 different charities in the UK in order to give all unsold food to those who need it most.
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Figures recently released by the company suggest that this new program could save 55,400 tonnes of food that were thrown away at its stores and distribution centers across the country in 2015.