We're shrinking our carbon footprint

Your favourite Kingsmill loaves are Great Everyday White, Tasty Wholemeal and 50/50. We've worked with the Carbon Trust using nationally recognised standards to calculate our carbon footprint for these loaves by:

Looking at all stages in our supply chain - from the wheat that is milled to make flour, sourcing all our other ingredients, baking bread and getting on to the retailer's shelf, to how the loaf is used in the home, and how any waste is dealt with.

Establishing the energy consumption involved in each of these stages and converting this into carbon emissions produced for each stage for each product.

Adding up these carbon emissions to give our total carbon footprint for your favourite loaves.

From carrying this out analysis across all three products we found Kingsmill Great Everyday and Kingsmill Tasty Wholemeal both have a carbon footprint of 1.3Kg of CO2 per 800g loaf whilst Kingsmill 50/50 is 1.2Kg of CO2.

Where does it all come from?

We are now able to identify how much of our carbon footprint is generated by each key stages, giving us the opportunity to target our future carbon reduction plans:

Raw Materials	Processing	Packaging	Distribution	Store	In Home	Disposal
45%	21%	2%	4%	2%	23%	3%