Bring your own lunchbox to cut plastic waste, says charity
Hubbub says a trial in East Anglia showed that offering a 10% price reduction did persuade some customers to come prepared with their own lunch box.
"I think we need to keep spreading the word and hopefully other companies will come aboard too," she says.Larger takeaway food chains say customers bringing in containers could present a health and safety risk. But they say they are making other moves to reduce waste. The Japanese-inspired takeaway chain Itsu says it is experimenting with putting recycling bins in front of its restaurants, although it says it is proving difficult to ensure waste streams are kept uncontaminated. Anything soiled with food can't be sent for recycling.
Leon which markets itself as offering healthy fast-food says it would"love" to incentivise customers to bring in reusable containers, but there would have to be"strict controls to minimise the risk of cross-contamination".
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