CauliBox

UK's first reusable lunchbox scheme. CauliBox is an award-winning tech startup that provides digitally-enabled reusable food packaging solutions to businesses. Our aim is to realise a world that fits our motto: Takeaway without the throwaway. UK's lunch-on-the-go habit is creating nearly 11 billion pieces of packaging every year. A survey on 1,200 UK office workers says more than half of them were buying takeaway lunches more than they used to five years ago, generating an estimated 276 items of waste per person per year (BBC News, 14 May 2019). Hectic city lifestyles mean that consumers often have to choose convenience over the environment. Plastic recycling is a temporary solution. While recycling is an important aspect of a circular supply chain, only ⅓ of UK’s plastic food packaging is recycled. Plastic can only be recycled limited times, and without systems to restrict production of plastic, the severe environmental impact of plastic production and disposition cannot be avoided. A lack of standardisation and digitalisation in the supply chain means that any single food-to-go business cannot tackle the issue of plastic food containers alone. We need an industry-wide solution and CauliBox is just that.