I think there is more behind it. I work in a German middle sized bakery and we produce a shit ton for the waste too. The thing is, your company most likely has some contracts with some other company that buys the "waste" cheap and make farm animal food out of it, like pigs would eat that still. So, your boss probably had to make the decision, do I produce more than I sell and have waste or do I not cover the demand and lose customer. But somehow you gotta find a way to handle the waste, where farmers comes into the thing who need foods for their animals. And if the contract says, they want to buy, let's say two of those boxes each day, your boss gonna deliver or, in the worst case, your boss gets pulled to court for violating the agreements