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21 Mar 2025

You're making a difference!

We’re wrapping up Food Waste Action Week 2025 by celebrating the incredible impact you’ve helped us make over the last 12 months. Our mission is to reduce food waste, and we’ve been keeping track to see just how much food you’ve helped us save.

Since April 2024 you’ve helped prevent a whopping 39,319 tonnes of food from going to waste. Can’t picture how much that is? Well, that’s about the same weight as 245 blue whales, or 3108 London buses, yes, the double decker ones!

Why shopping surplus means less waste and more savings

Every year, tons of perfectly good food goes to waste just because it’s surplus. This can happen for various reasons, such as a packaging change or being close to its best-before date. Company Shop steps in to rescue this food and sell it in our stores - so instead of being wasted, it ends up on your table.

Thanks to you, those rescued products have turned into a whopping 93,614,892 meals. That’s a win for the planet and your wallet because you’ve also saved an estimated £112,624,181 on your shopping. Talk about a tasty deal!

Want some more feel-good stats on the impact you’ve made? Because you haven’t just tackled food waste. Together, we’ve stopped a whopping 124,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. In other terms? That’s like taking 72,000 cars off the road for an entire year. Not bad for a grocery shop!

Make your impact go further

Your impact is already amazing, but guess what? There are some super simple ways you can cut down on even more food waste, right from your own home.

  • Love your leftovers. Get creative with last night’s dinner! Turn extra veggies into a stir-fry, blend fruit into a smoothie, or make a soup with whatever’s in the fridge.

  • Store smart. Keep your food fresher for longer by storing it correctly and when unpacking groceries, put the older stuff at the front to make sure it gets used first.

  • Freeze like a champ. Bread, fruit, veggies, and even some meats can be frozen to stay fresher for longer. Just portion them out, pop them in the freezer and you’ll have easy, no-prep foods ready whenever you need them!

Here’s to another year of fighting food waste together!

We’re all about making a positive impact year-round, and thanks to you, it just keeps growing! Each month, we share our waste prevention updates so you can see the difference we’re making together - so keep your eyes peeled for the impact you help create.

We’re not a zero-waste company, but we are a less-waste company, and that’s all because of you. Every time you shop surplus, you're creating a ripple effect: saving products, saving money, and saving the planet, one trolley at a time.