Bury council boss shares photo of bin filled with wasted food

As the nation is in a state of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, some people have been stripping supermarket shelves of all the food and bog roll they can get their hands on.

We’ve seen a lot of selfishness from some people, as they take more than they could possibly need and leave others with nothing.

Now we’re starting to see some of the wasteful results of this greediness, with photos being shared on social media of bins full of food.

The Executive Director of Operations at Bury Council, Donna Ball, took to social media to share one photo of wasted food – bizarrely, someone has thrown away tinned goods and pasta.

She wrote on Twitter: “The madness continues, if you are throwing perfectly good food in the bin that could support your food banks then give your head a bloody wobble!

“Binmen daily seeing  good food thrown in black bins.. this had bags of pasta underneath also!”

Over the weekend we covered a similar story, with Ajit Singh Atwal, a Lib Dem councillor in Derby, sharing photos of fresh food overflowing from bins.

The Twitter post reads: “To all the people in this great city of ours in Derby, if you have gone out & panic bought like a lot of you have & stacked up your houses with unnecessary items you don’t normally buy or you have bought in more food than you need, then you need to take a good look @ yourself”.

With it were four photos of wasted food, including bread, bananas, fish cakes and chicken.

Stockpiling and panic-buying needs to stop now, this is just getting daft…