In a UK first, Sainsburys supermarket stores will be taking out of date food that would previously have gone straight to a landfill site to be processed by Irish firm Food Surplus Management at its plant in Trim, Co Meath. There it will be turned into pet food, animal feed and others.

Sainsburys target is to have no food waste going to landfill by next spring, and no waste of any type going to landfills by the end of 2009. 

Well done Sainsburys! Good to see corporate business innovating in environmental waste management. The waste of food in my view is criminal. (The alternative is to hang out at my local Asda store before closing time and get all the food that is reduced to ridiculous prices like 5p for a loaf of bread!)