At Porky Whites, we hate food waste which is why we've partnered with The Bread and Butter Thing to redistribute any and all product that doesn’t make it to supermarket shelves to families in need. Commenting on the partnership, Carla Quirk said,

“We’re really excited to be partnering with the Bread and Butter Project. As a family business who make all our product fresh to order, we hate to see it go to waste so the work that the Bread and Butter Thing do to ensure food ends up where it should – on the plates of families in need – hugely important to us.”

‍Justin Pritchard - Head of Food, The Bread and Butter Thing had this to say;

“Meeting the Porky Whites team and witnessing the pride they take in their work and product was a real privilege. We’re hugely excited to welcome Porky Whites into the Bread and Butter Thing family and thankful for the impact that their support will have upon our members.”

Why food waste matters and the scale of it in the UK

Figures provided by waste and resources charity WRAP and The Worldwide Fund, show the scale of the problem of food wastage in the UK.

·       The annual food waste within UK households, hospitality and food service, food manufacture, retail and wholesale sectors in 2015 was estimated at around 9.5 million tonnes
·       This had an equivalent value of £19billion a year
·       A further 3 million edible tonnes is estimated to be wasted on UK farms every year. That’s another £1.8 billion a year
·       With around 43 million tonnes of food purchased in the UK, the amount of food wasted is just over a fifth
·       By weight, household waste makes up a whopping 70 per cent of all food wasted in the UK

As a food manufacturing business, food waste is always on our minds and the business is always keen to invest in ways to reduce waste at every point of the manufacturing process.

More about the Bread and Butter Thing

The Bread and Butter Thing’s mission is to unleash the power of food and ignite long-lasting change in struggling neighbourhoods across the UK. They build bridges out of food deserts, bringing nutritious, affordable food to the centre of the UK’s most deprived communities and nourish them. They change lives and give a voice to the people who use them – their members. They are the everyday – the bread and butter - baked into the heart of our communities.

Learn more about the Bread and Butter Project.

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