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  • Tesco plastic carrier bags full of rubbish with the corporate slogan no time for waste on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Supermarket chain Tesco plans to eliminate food waste and deal with surplus food saing: By the end of this year our goal is to make sure that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste from our UK retail operations.
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  • Tesco plastic carrier bags full of rubbish with the corporate slogan no time for waste on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. Supermarket chain Tesco plans to eliminate food waste and deal with surplus food saing: By the end of this year our goal is to make sure that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste from our UK retail operations.
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  • The mess left by an urban red fox which has learned to open a domestic food bin on a residential street, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • The mess left by an urban red fox which has learned to open a domestic food bin on a residential street, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • An anaerobic digestion plant at Her Majesty's Prison Guys Marsh, United Kingdom.  This system recycles the prisons food waste into electricity. It is designed to be be 100% self-sufficient and is the only such system currently in use in the U.K. Prison Service. It works by turning the food waste into methane gas which is then used to run a generator. Solid waste from the process is also used around the prison as a fertiliser.
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  • Food waste bins. Fareshare is a small charity in London that uses food from supermarkets that would otherwsie be wasted, and distributes it to those in need, working in collaboration with food banks and community groups in London.
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  • Young school children empty banana skins from their food waste box into a composter outdoors at their school, Hampshire, UK.
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  • Compost produced by one of the compost rockets at ELCRP food waste recycling project, Hackney, London.
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  • An old framed photograph of Prince Charles and Princess Diana during a street party on the 1st August 2015 in South London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Pedestrians avoid a noodle and sauce takeaway, dropped and discarded on the pavement during lunch-hour in the capitals financial district, on 4th February 2020, in the City of London, England. The lunchtime meal was being carried along the street when its heat and moisture made it drop through the bottom of a paper bag, turning it upside down and lying perfectly on the pavement as city workers emerged from their offices. Those who saw it in time stepped over the greasy obstacle but the distracted mostly by walking with phones to ears, stepped in it and helping spread it across the pavement.
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  • Pedestrians avoid a noodle and sauce takeaway, dropped and discarded on the pavement during lunch-hour in the capitals financial district, on 4th February 2020, in the City of London, England. The lunchtime meal was being carried along the street when its heat and moisture made it drop through the bottom of a paper bag, turning it upside down and lying perfectly on the pavement as city workers emerged from their offices. Those who saw it in time stepped over the greasy obstacle but the distracted mostly by walking with phones to ears, stepped in it and helping spread it across the pavement.
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  • Overflowing bins full of rubbish, waste from a nearby MacDonalds fast food store. At Waterloo, the tourists flock in huge crowds, buying junk food from MacDonalds. Trahs is everywhere. Here, a MacDonalds branded waste truck lies full.
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  • A detail of organic vegetable and fruit matter decomposing inside a home garden composting bin. We look down on to the natural waste as a close-up of the vegetables and fruit scraps that have been thrown away by a city householder in south London. Local authorities encourage the use of compost bins in back gardens (yards) and the proliferation of these efficient containers mean that their residue can be returned to the soil without the expense of transport to landfill. The rotting matter of banana skins, onions and potato peelings will eventually become a nutritious feed for new plants - and so the cycle goes on.
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  • A detail of organic vegetable and fruit matter decomposing inside a home garden composting bin. We look down on to the natural waste as a close-up of the vegetables and fruit scraps that have been thrown away by a city householder in south London. Local authorities encourage the use of compost bins in back gardens (yards) and the proliferation of these efficient containers mean that their residue can be returned to the soil without the expense of transport to landfill. The rotting matter of banana skins, onions and potato peelings will eventually become a nutritious feed for new plants - and so the cycle goes on.
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  • Fruit and veg waste rotting in a south London compost bin. The bright orange colour contrasts with the green vegetable matter stored in this bin storing organic material in an inner-city farm that promotes the organic and natural philosophy. The compost reduces down to help feed a new generation of food being grown for public consumption.
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  • Fruit and veg waste rotting in a south London compost bin. The bright orange colour contrasts with the green vegetable matter stored in this bin storing organic material in an inner-city farm that promotes the organic and natural philosophy. The compost reduces down to help feed a new generation of food being grown for public consumption.
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  • People eating outside a MacDonalds fast food restaurant at Waterloo on the Southbank of the river.Thousands of tourists gather here creating a mess of rubbist and waste.Trash builds and the whole place is an unclean environment
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  • Tehkhand Slum, Delhi , India.  Cardboard boxes of out of date food collected from the streets and rubbish tips to sell to local dealers.  Many slum dwellers earn a living from recycling old industrial waste and live well below the poverty-line.  Her whole family survives from this work.  This is very dangerous work and injuries are frequent
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  • A detail of rotting vegetables in a garden compost bin. A detail of organic vegetable and fruit matter decomposing inside a home garden composting bin. We look down on to the natural waste as a close-up of the vegetables and fruit scraps that have been thrown away by a city householder in south London. Local authorities encourage the use of compost bins in back gardens (yards) and the proliferation of these efficient containers mean that their residue can be returned to the soil without the expense of transport to landfill. The rotting matter of carrot skins etc. will eventually become a nutritious feed for new plants - and so the cycle goes on.
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  • Young male volunteer making food in a community kitchen. Food Cycle is a small charity based in East London that uses food donated by supermarkets, that would otherwsie be wasted, to make free meals for those in need, working in collaboration with several homeless shelters and community groups in London.
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  • Young woman checks what can be made with the recalimed food donated by Waitrose. Food Cycle is a small charity based in East London that uses food donated by supermarkets, that would otherwsie be wasted, to make free meals for those in need, working in collaboration with several homeless shelters and community groups in London.
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  • Meal made from potatoes. Food Cycle is a small charity based in East London that uses food donated by supermarkets, that would otherwsie be wasted, to make free meals for those in need, working in collaboration with several homeless shelters and community groups in London.
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  • Person washing leaves in a colander wearing latex gloves. Food Cycle is a small charity based in East London that uses food donated by supermarkets, that would otherwsie be wasted, to make free meals for those in need, working in collaboration with several homeless shelters and community groups in London.
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  • Woman selecting oranges, Fareshare is a small charity in London that uses food from supermarkets that would otherwsie be wasted, and distributes it to those in need, working in collaboration with food banks and community groups in London.
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  • Discarded leftovers of picnic food and drink on the grass during the annual Chelsea Flower Show, the annual event held by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London. Plates of shellfish and puddings plus bottles and corks from champagne and Bucks Fizz, for example, are seen on the catering tays on a patch of grass near show pavilions.
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  • A lady employee of the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, wheels a galley trolley to be filled with fresh airline food in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A production line of lady employees from the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, prepare salad trays in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Aarti cooks breakfast on a piece of waste ground beneath a flyover near Okhla station. New Delhi, India.
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  • Menu specification of a Business Class in-flight airline salmon meal are compared next to finished dishes in the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, reaches out to add the last items in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1379-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A chef working for the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, fries Welsh Lamb cutlets in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1368-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A lady employee of the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, reaches out to add the last items to fresh fruit salads in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1364-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A production line of lady employees from the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, prepare salad trays in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1357-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Meat salads are stacked in readiness for an airline flight in the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1353-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • At the Wema Centre for boys in Mombassa, Kenya Gilbert sits on his bunk in the shared dormitory. Gilbert used to live at dumpsite collecting waste. He has been at the Wema centre for 1 year. Wema provide a rehabilitation program for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.
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  • A lady employee of the world's largest independent provider of airline catering and provisioning services, Gate Gourmet, reaches out to add the last items in the company's factory on the southern perimeter road at Heathrow Airport, West London. Gate Gourmet serve more than 200 million meals on 2 million airline flights a year to their 250-plus airline customers at more than 100 airport locations around the globe. Apart from creating the bespoke meals for an airline's culture and ethnic demands, that pack the pre-flight carts, deliver and load into the aircraft galleys and afterwards, they dispose of the waste and strip, wash and sterilize the equipment. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Dropped McDonalds packaging and food remains on the floor of a London bus, on 3rd October 2019, in south London, England.
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  • Rubbish cart outside McDonalds fast food restaurant. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
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  • A woman washes her clothes on her balcony in Dandora, meters away from mountains of rubbish. Dandora slum only a couple of kilometres from the centre of Nairobi, Dandora holds the biggest rubbish dump in Sub-Saharan Africa with 1,500 tons of rubbish dumped daily. Amongst the rubbish, thousands of slum dwellers search for scraps of food and re-useable rubbish.
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  • Rubbish truck passes some people trying to earn some money from tourists dressed up as a Giant Panda on the corner of Gerrard Street in Chinatown which remains very quiet with a few people visiting Chinese restaurants to pick up food and to see the red lanterns on 26th June 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. As the July deadline approaces and government will relax its lockdown rules further, the West End remains quiet, while some non-essential shops are allowed to open with individual shops setting up social distancing systems.
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  • As City businessmen walk past during their lunch hour, a homeless man searches through a bin for scraps of discarded food, on 16th June 1994, in the City of London, England.
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  • Rubbish on Portobello Road market, Notting Hill, West London. This famous Sunday market is when the antique stalls come out as well as the food stalls.
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  • A brown paper bag from Monopoly is still on a seat of a London bus after its user has left, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A McDonalds collection cart and bin overflow with rubbish in a popular tourist area in London. Trash is a big problem here.
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  • People pass blue bags of rubbish. Borough Market is a thriving Farmers market near London Bridge. Saturday is the busiest day.
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  • Cressingham Gardens community composting and food waste scheme on 13th June 2015 in South London, United Kingdom. Cressingham Gardens is a council garden estate, located on the southern edge of Brockwell Park. It comprises of 306 dwellings and built to the design of Lambeth Borough Council architect Edward Hollamby in the early 1970s. In 2012, Lambeth Council proposed regeneration of the estate, a decision highly opposed by many residents. Since the announcement, the highly motivated campaign group Save Cressingham Gardens has been active.
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