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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: This Company Uses Surplus Bread to Brew Beer [Watch (HLS stream): This Company Uses Surplus Bread to Brew Beer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LSizo4CE.m3u8) (4:22)  _Published 2023-12-12. Toast Brewing, a small-size business based in the U.K., started brewing beer in 2016 using surplus bread from neighboring bakeries and sandwich shops. Co-founder and COO Louisa Ziana shares how the team focuses the business on sustainability through their products._ --- Mar 12, 2024 1:11 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [A Toast To 2015's Fiercest Business Rivalries](/video/udMj7uJB/) ### A Toast To 2015's Fiercest Business Rivalries [U.K. Parliament Votes to End 400-Year-Old Beer Tie System](/video/qPAS2hBp/) ### U.K. Parliament Votes to End 400-Year-Old Beer Tie System [West Bank Brew: The Beer That Made Taybeh Famous](/video/VwivxpP5/) ### West Bank Brew: The Beer That Made Taybeh Famous --- ## Transcript Brad is the most wasted food in the UK about 44% of all Brad Pitt's in the UK is wasted in the about in the US. If you want to change the world you have to throw it back and policies and those just trying it. A big hairy audacious goal is to looks like a woman billion slices of surplus Bragg. We are at about 3.5 million. So we still have a long way to go. We've estimated that if the bear that was produced in the UK was buried with just 10% surplus bread and replacing Thompson of The Mulch and we would have breakfast in the UK involves working today is replacing all day. So if you look at the typical carbon footprint of a pint of beer you will find out about 30% of it is probably a lot of energy is used in a process and then if we don't have to do that tool because we can use something that would otherwise adjustments waist and we made some images of the carbon footprint of the project. We used to have this industrial symbiosis of businesses being kind of cases where you was having local bakery in a local Brewery by the clothes together and they would use each other and then opposes everything has become bigger the industrialization of the food system with kind of lost touch with her and we will sell devalued the cost of waste is not significant enough to incentivize measures to prevent waste so we work with bakeries that produce the level Below sell prepackaged lies that you would buy in on the supermarket shelf or with the sandwich industry who usually discard the he lands at the end of the life when I can package sandwiches. So it's very much a partnership rather than a stellar fire type of relationship so that we Ends up with the solution that we're looking for. Sweet Designs this multiple to require investigators to pledge that they will be invested in that capital gains and environmentally last businesses will pups that business is so is that the body that we create through growing post of the business that can then be used for investors to support other businesses to support the economy of business. I think that developing solutions to smaller communities is really important at the moment. We are wasting industrial levels of Brad and dustrial levels of the solution to it also needs a lot of community initiatives. Our food is nature and if we can prevent food right away so we can help the site night truck. 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