Zero Waste Stall

The Zero Waste Stall, coordinated through Ross Food Hub, aims to help reduce food waste within Ross on Wye, while providing food to those most in need and those who are conscious of their impact on the environment.

Volunteers collect produce from local supermarkets which would otherwise end up in landfill. Quite a bit of our food comes through our partnership with Fareshare https://fareshare.org.uk/

This is mainly fresh items (e.g. fruit, vegetables and bread) which are past their best but are still perfectly good to eat, or items in damaged packaging. The produce is then available to all members of the public for free via the Zero Waste Stall which is open 6 mornings a week.

In the first four months of opening, more than 2,000 visits to the Zero Waste Stall were recorded and more than 5 tonnes of food that would otherwise have gone to landfill were given away. Typically, less than 1% of the food collected from the supermarkets goes to waste and when it does, instead of landfill, it is composted at the Community Garden where the Zero Waste Stall is based.