Chinese people search for food among expired, rotting waste in rubbish dump

Many people, including children, have been photographed searching a rubbish site in central China to find edible food among the vast quantity of expired and rotting produce thrown out by a warehouse.

The residents were seen sorting through the waste at a yard in Huangpi district, in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, around this month’s National Day holiday after a warehouse dumped the unwanted food, news website Thepaper.cn reported on Tuesday.

Some people started eating the food, including milk chocolate, chicken, pastries and cooked eggs, as soon as they had found it, the report said.