Bakery giant Greggs saves five million meals from going to waste

This partnership supports our pledge to reduce food surplus

- COREENA FORD Business writer [e-mail]

NEWCASTLE bakery giant Greggs has reached a significant sustainability landmark after preventing over five million meals ~ 420 tonnes of surplus food - from going to waste.

The Tyneside based business teamed up four years ago with surplus food company Too Good To Go, which operates an app that helps companies to prevent waste while also steering people to places looking to offload unsold food.

The social enterprise’s free app allows people to search for businesses in their area offering unsold items which they can then buy as a ‘magic bag’, filled with food at a fraction of its original retail value, to be collected at an allotted time.