date:Nov 19, 2013
Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, has apparently stopped using waste contractors to pick up and dispose of general rubbish, including unsold food, from its 600 largest supermarkets.
Instead, bags of waste are piled into metal wheeled cages lined with clear plastic. These cages are picked up by the same trucks that deliver food to the stores once they have emptied their load.
The trucks drop off the rubbish at a waste centre before returning to Tesco's distribution centres to pick up more groce