Surely there is a better way to deal with unsold bread? What a waste.
I know that Gail’s works with the Felix Project and gives away to charities any surplus.
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Surely there is a better way to deal with unsold bread? What a waste.
I know that Gail’s works with the Felix Project and gives away to charities any surplus.
by Top_Ad4513
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They poison it with bleach too, allegedly, so that it’s inedible
Should give away like Pret
Capitalism: If we can’t sell it and make a profit then nobody can benefit from it.
You could pop in next time or write them an email to ask why they waste all that bread
Paul say [At PAUL, we’re proud to say that each of our London stores supports several charities local and large. We donate surplus bread and products to The Felix Project, West London Day Centre, the Order of Malta, Project Soup (Oxford) and Marylebone Food Cycle](https://www.paul-uk.com/sustainability/community).
I’m going to guess what you’ve photographed is either
not from Paul
surplus to the charities’ requirements for today, or
not edible due to staleness or similar.
They are usually selling it away on TooGoodToGo though? Wonder why here it wasn’t.
Maybe there was an issue with a charity being able to collect it?
Maybe new staff that didn’t realise the routine?
Idk, am totally guessing
Bread is one of the most wasted foods in the uk. We waste 10 million tonnes of food a year. Shelves are fully stocked on every street all over the country every single day, a lot of it has a shelf life of just a few days. You can see in the supermarket shelves full of things that go off that day. It would be nice to think it goes to food banks or too good to go or wherever, but I would guess the vast majority is binned. Yet millions are in food poverty. And places like North Korea exist in the world, some people there don’t know what bread is, they havn’t got a clue it exists. But what do people expect when you look in the shop window and see huge isles of food and never a bare shelf. Life is just depressing.
When your eye automatically zooms in to the single exposed loaf in the forefront and you think – well that’s not too bad.
Swiftly pans out and oh my!
A lot of shops now are signing up to olio to help reduce food waste. People sign up to become team leaders and they collect the food that goes off that day, and they put up listings for people to come and collect them. It’s a really good way to reduce food waste and save some money as well.