An initiative to tackle food waste and reduce landfill is growing increasingly popular, and has moved to a new location.

Stevenage Food Rescue Hub - an environmental project aimed at rescuing food destined for landfill and offering it to people on a pay-as-you-feel basis - has relocated from Our Mutual Friend in Broadwater Crescent to The Old Red Lion in Hydean Way.

Every Saturday, between 9.30am and 11am, people are invited to take two empty bags and fill them with fruit, vegetables, flowers, bakery goods and store cupboard staples.

The project aims to reduce food waste and its impact on our environment, while also connecting with the community.

Volunteer Bonnie said: "Instead of food going in the bin, which it would have been destined for, our volunteers go out the night before and collect it from the supermarkets and bring it here, for the community."

A spokesman for the hub said: "Every week, tonnes of fresh, edible food is thrown away by supermarkets in the UK, as they clear older stock to make room for the new.

"Fresh fruit and veg, bakery products and store cupboard items which still have days and weeks of life remaining are destined for landfill, adding to the ever-growing problem of CO2 emissions and climate change.

"Food Rescue Hub rescues this food - crates and crates of it every week - and diverts it to fill tummies, not landfill.

"We make the food available to our ever-growing community of food rescuers who, like us, don't want to see perfectly good food go to waste.

"Everyone is welcome to bring two empty bags and come and rescue food from our hub. In doing so, you'll be contributing to halting climate change."

The suggested minimum donation for two bags of food is £5, but making a donation is not essential.

Bonnie said: "If you are able to give a donation, it just helps us to be able to keep going. But, if you can't, please still come, because the main thing here is to get the food saved.

"You don't have to meet any criteria. We are not a food bank. It's an environmental project. We are here to save the food from landfill, and instead give it to people."