Some 800,000 apples thrown away every day in UK despite a drive to end food wastage. Now a cider maker is using the waste or wonky fruit to produce gallons of the popular tipple.
Urban cider producer Hawkes is turning surplus apples into delicious drinks as part of its annual Apple Donors campaign, in collaboration with The Orchard Project - the only national charity dedicated solely to the creation, restoration and celebration of community orchards.
Donors from around London, the South East and beyond, will deliver surplus stock from orchards, apples that have fallen from trees in the garden, or even those that might be on the turn in the fruit bowl, to be turned into cider. Having saved 130,000 (12 tonnes) of ‘waste’ apples in 2021, Hawkes hopes to salvage a further 12 tonnes of the fruit this autumn.
