UK households and supermarkets throw away tonnes of edible food every year
(Picture: PA Archive)Waitrose has advised shoppers to eat tinned foods once a week to cut down on food waste, as it announces its plans to remove the best-before dates on nearly 500 of its products.
From September, the supermarket chain will scrap the dates on packaged fruit and vegetable to encourage consumers to use their own judgment about whether food has gone off.
