Charities call for ‘Amazon anti-waste law’ after firm denies destroying in-date food

Allegations grow against online giant as new footage appears to show good food and electronic equipment marked as waste at a depot in Scotland

Charities have written to the prime minister calling for a new anti-waste, or Amazon law", to be introduced in the UK as the online retailer was forced to deny new allegations that it destroys in-date groceries - as well as household goods such as laptops and TVs.

Footage and photographs of Amazon's Dunfermline depot in Fife, taken by one of its workers, appear to show boxes of groceries, including crisps, tinned food and soft drinks, being earmarked as waste. They included products with intact packaging that had not passed their best-before date, according to the video recordings obtained by ITV News and the Times newspaper.