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A British supermarket is taking the waste not, want not approach — and it’s anything but rubbish.

By December, 150 of Marks & Spencer’s biggest stores will be ready to donate any extraneous products that are nearing their expiration dates, the company announced in a press release on Friday. Its ultimate goal is to reduce food waste by 20 percent in the next five years. 

The program is feeding people in need, cutting back on waste and also combating misunderstandings with regard to what expiration dates on food items actually mean.

Those dates typically just indicate when a product has reached its “peak,” but don’t necessarily mean the food has spoiled at that time, Time reported in 2013. That’s often especially the case with foods that don’t require refrigeration.

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