FareShare

FareShare is a national charity, which redistributes in–date surplus food from the food and beverage industry to homeless and vulnerable people via community organisations.       

As well as providing quality edible surplus food to FareShare, Nestlé supports the charity by:      

  • Providing food and logistics assistance including seconding a senior logistics expert, to ensure the charity can manage an increased flow of food through the business facing arm of FareShare, FareShare 1st.

  • Helping our food industry peers understand how they can benefit from working with FareShare.

  • Supporting FareShare’s Eat Well Live Well programme, to educate vulnerable people about nutrition.

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FareShare1st – Minimising Landfill

The first and most important step in reducing food waste is improved customer forecasting. For any quality surplus produced, Nestlé works with FareShare to provide the charity with food ranging from pasta to coffee and cereals. In 2007 Nestlé UK provided over 600,000 meals’ worth of food for those in need through FareShare’s networks.      

Working with FareShare and its waste management providers to reuse and recycle as much in–edible food as possible, Nestlé saw 445 tonnes less food entering landfill in 2008, and 2,890 tonnes less CO2 being produced.        

Charity FareShare has been an important partner for Nestlé in reducing its landfill disposal. The partnership began in 2005 when FareShare was developing the concept of a one–stop disposal shop for the food industry, managing large volumes of surplus and waste food. Nestlé and the Ron Hull Group, a waste management company, were integral in piloting and refining the enterprise.      

Following the initial pilot, FareShare 1st was launched in 2006. FareShare 1st receives food companies’ surplus packaged food and by–product waste and distributes the good quality edible food to vulnerable people via FareShare. The remaining waste which has passed its sell by date or cannot be consumed is recycled or reused as a soil substitute and packaging such as paper, metal, cardboard, wood and glass is recycled.      

As well as ensuring that product is safely recycled, the scheme allows FareShare1st   to generate income which is integral to FareShare’s ambition to become a self–sufficient charitable organisation.

   
In 2007, Nestlé and FareShare were named ‘Best Partnership’ by leading recycling organisation, VALPAK, at their annual awards ceremony.