The Real Junk Food Project Wolverhampton / Wolves Waste Not

The Real Junk Food Project Wolverhampton / Wolves Waste Not Our first step to achieve this challenging task is to intercept perfectly edible food that would otherwise not make it to plate and serve it as healthy meals.

We use surplus produce destined for landfill, distribute it at our Surplus Food Markets and, cooked into delicious meals, at our Pop-up Cafes on a Pay As You Feel basis Inspired by The Real Junk Food Project, Wolves Waste Not is a collaborative effort between catering professionals and activists to bring about a radical change in our food system. As well as the positive environmental impacts of re

ducing edible food waste the project also has clear social benefits through operating a strictly Pay-as-you-feel (PAYF) policy. PAYF offers an alternative to the conventional the payment system as there is no price on any produce at our market or at our pop-up cafés. Our system transcends monetary transactions and liberates people to use their skills and attributes as well as money to pay for their meals. Furthermore, we aim to highlight the absurdity that the produce we use has been stripped of its monetary value but still retains its nutritional value. By making people think about what they wish to contribute for their meals, the idea is to get society thinking about how they value food as a resource. It is estimated that 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted globally each year, this amounts to nearly 40% of global production, this occurs for a multitude of reasons that vary between regions. In the U.K studies have shown that we waste over 15 million tons of edible food annually due to stringent and confusing food safety legislation.

21/05/2025

Anyone at the market this morning lost a wallet?
Get in touch or pop in if you have

We were very dissapointed with this incident earier today. Our project relies on our customers donations and the money r...
13/02/2025

We were very dissapointed with this incident earier today. Our project relies on our customers donations and the money raised goes towards paying our large Fareshare membership fee so we can guarantee a good range of produce available, our overheads for powering our fridges and freezers etc, and all the other supplies needed to run the project. Stealing our supplies is the same as taking money out of our donation bucket!

18/01/2025
We have A LOT of surplus milk available today. If you want any, just pop into Gatis Community Space before 3pm if you ca...
08/01/2025

We have A LOT of surplus milk available today. If you want any, just pop into Gatis Community Space before 3pm if you can, or drop us a message. If there are any organisations that could use a large amount please get in touch

12/11/2024

We'd like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Rotary Club of Tettenhall for their kind donation of £500 towards keeping our project running :-)

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Gatis Community Space
Wolverhampton
WV60ET

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 1pm
Thursday 10am - 1pm

Telephone

01902 651155

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