Impact Reports

Looking for our impact report? Every year we publish a summary of the year, setting out the impact of our work. Our latest 2024 IMPACT REPORT is out now.

We've turned 3.9 million slices of surplus bread since we began brewing in 2016. If we stacked up those slices, they’d reach over 5 times the height of Mount Everest.

By using this surplus bread, we’ve used less malted barley. This reduces demand for agricultural land, which is currently expanding into wild nature with poor outcomes for biodiversity, as well as the loss of important natural carbon stores. We also reduce water demand for irrigation and reduce energy and chemical use cause greenhouse gas emissions. from producing malt.

We’ve also now donated over £127k to charitable organisations and created heaps of positive impact with them.

Our report also includes a deep dive on our full value chain carbon footprint: 187 tCO2e (with 99.9% scope 3, ie emission sources not owned or controlled by Toast). By using surplus bread we also avoided emissions of 7.5 tCO2e, giving a net footprint of 179 tCO2e.

As a growing business, we monitor emissions per litre of beer packaged for sale. We are currently at 407g CO2e per litre, a 24% reduction in relative emissions since 2019. 

We also share the product carbon footprints. You’ll see that a can has a 65% lower carbon footprint than a bottle, and a pint has a 80% lower carbon footprint than a bottle! So a big focus of our strategy is influencing trade customers to choose kegs, and consumers to choose cans over bottles.

In the report we detail some of the things we’re working on to achieve an 82% reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2030.

Whilst we continue to turn leftover loaves to liquid gold, raising funds for charity and awareness for nature, we are always looking at ways to support and influence wider change. We are collaborative at heart, and believe collective action is critical so support many NGO campaigns for legislative change. If you also believe in a better world for all, reach out. We can go faster and further together.

Cheers!

View past reports:

2023 Impact Report
2022 Impact Report
2021 Impact Report
2020 Impact Report
2019 Impact Report