Tips For Being More Sustainable With Food Delivery
● Leave out the menus
Have you noticed how many food deliveries include a physical copy of the company’s menu? Clearly we have been able to discover what you have on sale and ordered it – ee don’t need your menu now! Many of them are made from paper that isn’t recyclable too, meaning it is useless waste.
Save your marketing for people who don’t know about your business, and save a few trees at least by not preaching to the converted in unsustainable form.
● Hold the condiments
Remember that your customers are at home, so they may well have access to items such as ketchup and mayonnaise already. If you place sachets of condiments in the bag as standard, a good number of them will go to waste. Better to ask them if they want them on the phone or provide a space on your online order form where they opt-in. This saves you money and stops the waste of precious resources.
● Think about cutlery
Similarly, they might not need cutlery, so you might want to ask them about that too. If they do want cutlery, avoid the non-recyclable plastic knives, forks and spoons of old. We stock a wide range of wooden cutlery that is biodegradable and recyclable. This means that you don’t have to worry about the plastic waste that you generate from cutlery.
● The food tray issue
Of course, the elephant in the room is the food tray. They item that carries the main event. Let’s think differently. Yes, the non-recyclable plastic carton has always been a mainstay of UK food delivery culture, but this has to stop.
We stock a massive range of food trays and boxes. Each is either recyclable, compostable, biodegradable or a combination of the three. We have burger boxes with vents to prevent hot food going soggy, as well as sustainable hot dog trays, fish and chip trays and more.
If you want to make your food delivery option more sustainable, talk to us today. We can help equip you with products that will get your food to your customers in great condition and without costing the earth.
