The Big Apple members – many of whom have high-earning jobs by day – spend their evenings bin-diving to collect fresh produce discarded by cafes and supermarkets.

The group, who organise monthly ‘trash tours’ so that people can seek the best places for free food, sourced potatoes, peppers, packaged salads, yogurts, pasta, bread rolls and hummus and made their own burgers and barbecue food from the ingredients…

‘There is no reason for this food to be thrown out. It is just as good now as it was 20 minutes ago when it was in the supermarket.