Put sustainability at the top of your menu

These four great initiatives can make a big difference to the environment – and protect your business’ bottom line. They’re simple, smart and money-saving solutions that will boost your eco-credentials and go down well with your customers.

Environmentally responsible packaging

You’re looking to do your bit for the environment. Customers want to do their bit too. To help, you can switch to wooden cutlery; it’s a great, affordable alternative to single-use plastic cutlery. By changing your boxes, bags and containers to products made with renewable resources, you’ll also give your customers another quick way to help create a sustainable future for all. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Notpla and NaturePac. They offer an amazing range of innovative packaging products and restaurant materials. There are more than 50 new food packaging products available on the Just Eat Shop.

Switch to electric pedal bikes

Help reduce emission levels and your costs when making deliveries. These electric delivery bikes are cleaner, greener and give you the speed you need to get your meals to hungry customers. Just Eat has partnered with Eskuta to offer electric pedal bikes to Restaurant Partners at exclusively discounted rates. Visit their site to place an order.

Recycle that waste oil

Using a licensed waste cooking oil collector can make sure that your used cooking oil is refined into biodiesel – a green fuel that helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from diesel vehicles on the roads. Booker and Makro customers can have their waste oil collected free of charge. Plus you can earn £6 back on every 20 litres you recycle. Remember, waste cooking oil is harmful to the environment if not disposed of properly and UK law requires it be disposed of in the correct way. Call 0345 120 4545 to arrange a collection. If you are not an existing Booker or Makro customer, call 01943 754 419 to apply.

Use energy that keeps on giving

Green energy is good for the environment, and good for business too. Green energy comes from clean, sustainable sources, such as solar panels and wind power, which will never run out, and their carbon emissions are much lower than fossil fuels like oil and coal. It’s never made more sense to switch to green energy with Bionic, some of their green energy tariffs beat standard non-green tariffs on price, so you’d be saving for the long term. Call Bionic on 0800 158 3704 to get a quote.