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Vegware Sustainability Profile

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Vegware is a foodservice packaging company founded in Edinburgh in 2006. Its products are made from renewable, plant-based materials and are designed to be commercially composted with food waste. The company has described itself as the UK’s first and only completely compostable food packaging company and says it combines environmental products with waste management support for a zero waste foodservice sector. Vegware also provides environmental audits and waste-related services, and its products are sold in more than 70 countries.

About Vegware

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  • Unverified
  • Employees
  • 25 - 100
  • Country
  • United Kingdom

Vegware Services

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Vegware offers sustainable packaging consulting, guiding businesses in the foodservice industry towards eco-friendly solutions by leveraging plant-based materials. Their expertise helps companies reduce landfill waste, enhance their environmental credentials, and implement practices that align with commercial composting standards, supporting both sustainability goals and compliance with environmental regulations.

Serviceable Locations: United Kingdom

Vegware Sustainability Actions

Compostable packaging products

Vegware makes compostable food packaging out of plant-based materials. Founded in 2006 by Joe Frankel, Vegware makes its cups, cutlery, tableware and takeout packaging using renewable plant-based materials, such as cornstarch-based bio-plastic, recycled sugarcane fibre and wood pulp. Its products are designed to be commercially compostable with food waste, and are currently sold across 70 countries.

Eco Audits for CSR reporting

Vegware’s Recycling Consultant, Eilidh Brunton comments, “Our Eco Audits have proven an extremely effective tool for CSR reporting. Since 2010, our Eco Audits have compared the carbon savings of switching to low-carbon cornstarch over PET plastic. Our new figures take this further, comparing all our renewable materials with those used in conventional packaging.”

Food Waste Network service

Vegware’s non-profit initiative The Food Waste Network is a free service matchmaking any UK business with local food waste collections and promoting zero waste.

Carbon savings figures

New data comparing the embodied carbon in packaging materials reveals huge carbon savings for renewable materials over carbon-intensive plastics. For example, bagasse – recycled sugarcane used to make Vegware’s takeaway boxes and plates - has 99% less embodied CO2 than polystyrene. In 2013, by choosing to use Vegware’s eco packaging, UK customers saved 925 tonnes of carbon.

Recycling scheme rollout

You can now recycle used Vegware paper & bagasse products at 70 designated collection points! Vegware 與Mil Mill 聯乘合作現可於共70個指定收集點回收任何Vegware 紙類及⽢蔗渣類的產品.

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Vegware Sustainability Commitments

2022

Foodpanda packaging pledge

Foodpanda’s parent firm Delivery Hero has chosen to work with Novolex’s Eco-Products, as well as German firm Bio-lutions. Foodpanda recently pledged to offer its restaurant partners 10 million units of green packaging by 2022.

2030

Support Hong Kong Net Zero

This initiative highlights how small-scale recycling can reduce landfill waste and support Hong Kong’s Net Zero goals.


What do our labels mean?

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Certified B Corporation

About Vegware

  • Status
  • Unverified
  • Employees
  • 25 - 100
  • Country
  • United Kingdom

Sustainable Development Goals

Vegware is committed to advancing these Global Goals to promote prosperity for people & planet.

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