It would be remiss of me not to commend some of the supermarkets for what they are doing. In my constituency, in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Upper Bann (David Simpson) and, I suspect, in everyone’s constituency, the large supermarket chains, come Friday and Saturday night, have a system whereby if a product, such as fresh fruit or veg, is coming near its end of life, they disperse the produce among community groups. As I said, that is done in my constituency, and it works exceptionally well. It does away with the loss of the product and someone gets the benefit of it. Supermarkets are chastised, but sometimes they do a lot of good things.
Plastic Food and Drink Packaging
Proceeding contribution from
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 24 October 2019.
It occurred during Debates on select committee report on Plastic Food and Drink Packaging.
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