IN 2021 WE’VE DONATED OVER FOOD WASTE As one of the UK’s leading grocery brands and food and drink manufacturers, we have a clear responsibility to address the issue of food waste from farm to fork, which we take very seriously. In the last year we have continued to make good progress, achieving an overall food waste reduction of 13% versus 2020, across our global operations during what was a challenging year.
105K CASES
OF FOOD AND DRINK TO FARESHARE
This work is ongoing, as we continue to explore all opportunities to accelerate further action. We are partnering organisations such as WRAP and we’re proud to have supported them in their first UK Food Waste Action Week earlier in 2021, highlighting the role that preventing food waste plays in tackling climate change – another important element of our 2030GreenGoals sustainability programme, and vision to ‘Proudly help families to eat well without costing the Earth’.
FARESHARE We’ve been partnering with FareShare since 2013 and all food and drink that we produce at our UK sites that cannot be sold for whatever reason and is fit for human consumption is donated to them. The charity based, in the UK, is leading the way in tackling hunger and food waste. In fact, 2020/2021 has been FareShare’s biggest year yet. They helped 10,542 charities and community groups and 1,108,064 people were provided food supplied by FareShare. The food they’ve redistributed contributed towards 131.9 million meals and saved the charity sector £18.5 million. In 2021 we donated over 105k cases of food and drink, both branded and customer own brand products. We’ve also established a food bank partnership in Italy for excess stock at our PIA operation.
IN LINE WITH ITS 2030GREENGOALS INITIATIVE, AND COMMITMENT AS A MEMBER OF THE CHAMPIONS 12.3 COALITION, PRINCES IS WORKING TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS TOWARDS ACHIEVING SDG TARGET 12.3 BY 2030: BY 2030, HALVE PER CAPITA GLOBAL FOOD WASTE AT THE RETAIL AND CONSUMER LEVELS AND REDUCE FOOD LOSSES ALONG PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY CHAINS, INCLUDING POST-HARVEST LOSSES.
