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University under fire as sandwiches are binned after three hours
ONE of London’s leading homeless charities has criticised City University for wasting hundreds of pounds worth of sandwiches every week.
The private contractor that runs the university canteen throws away baguettes, costing up to £3 each, that are more than three hours old because they are considered to be no longer fresh.
Final-year journalism student Dimi Reider said: “They make a batch of sandwiches at ten o’clock, and at one o’clock they put them all into a big bin, especially the tuna ones.”
Ian Lock, a trustee of the Simon Community homeless charity, has urged the university, in Northampton Square, Finsbury, to give the needy the unwanted food from the Upper Crust sandwich bar in its refectory.
He said: “There are plenty of deserving people who would welcome a nice sandwich – pensioners, the homeless, even the university’s own students are all hungry.
“It’s such a shame to waste all this food. We would definitely take the sandwiches if they offered.”
Anna Russell at Fareshare, a charity that distributes unused food, said: “It seems wasteful to me. They might not be absolutely fresh, but I’m sure they’re still edible.”
A spokeswoman for SSP, which owns Upper Crust, said that giving away the sandwiches would be a health and safety issue, as they were not refrigerated and so “would make you very, very sick” once they were more than three hours old.
A City University spokeswoman said: “There is very little food waste from our Upper Crust sales – they are one of our most popular lines, and the baguettes are only made until lunchtime every day.” |
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