EXCLUSIVE: Tayside Contracts starts recording food waste at schools in the region

It comes after Tay News asked how many meals went spare each week as part of our Food for Thought investigation.

Published 20th Dec 2017
Last updated 20th Dec 2017

Tay News can reveal the company responsible for providing school meals in Dundee, Perth and Kinross, and Angus has started recording how much food waste is produced after lunch every day.

As part of our Food for Thought investigation we discovered that information was not being recorded.

But since the October holidays, Tayside Contracts has been monitoring its food waste levels.

All this week, Tay News has been looking at the issue after discovering 6,000 meals are left over at schools in Fife each week.

Our reporter Hazel Martin explains what she has found out: