In the United Kingdom, Just Eat is introducing measures to reduce excess plastic included in UK takeaway food deliveries. Just Eat is a takeaway food delivery service that works with 28,000 largely independent restaurants in the UK and is committing to several measures such as no longer selling all single-use plastic items in its shop and a trial adding a pre-ticked box on its app and website to nudge customers to opt out of receiving plastic that they do not need – such as plastic cutlery, straws and sauce sachets.
Just Eat is also establishing an innovation platform to invest in the research and development of innovative and practical alternatives, like biobased products, for single use plastics. The first initiative will be a partnership with Skipping Rocks Lab to trial the introduction of seaweed-based sauce sachets to restaurant partners which are not only edible but also decompose within six weeks. Just Eat will also work with the Sustainable Restaurant Association to create and distribute a series of resources for restaurants to help them and their customers reduce plastic usage over time.