Morpeth’s Stobhill Link Community Fridge saves 11.5 tonnes of food waste in 2025
In the UK, we throw away around 9.5 million tonnes of food every year. Food waste has a big impact on Climate Change; growing and getting food on our plates takes a lot of resources including water, energy and transportation. Community Fridges started in 2016 as one way of preventing food waste and there are now hundreds of them in the UK. Stobhill Link’s Community Fridge opened in 2022 and has grown each year.
In 2025, Stobhill Link's Community Fridge saved a staggering 11 and half tonnes of food from waste; the equivalent of saving 37 tonnes of CO2. The local community donate and pick up food and volunteers collect food from retailers which is near or on its best before or use by date and which would otherwise go to waste.
If you would like to find out more about Stobhill Link’s Community Fridge and the other ways they help prevent waste, get in touch with them – they would love to hear from you.
They are at 37 Shields Road, Morpeth NE61 2SA. Telephone 01670 519575.
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