COMPOSTABLE foodservice packaging specialist Vegware has released its Sustainability Report 2021.
The report highlights the Edinburgh-headquartered firm’s commitment to driving access to composting infrastructure, and explains how its waste consultancy has supported caterers to compost its used compostable containers, cutlery and cups.
Vegware said that, at the end of 2021, 100% of mainland UK was covered by courier post-back services, and regular commercial collections were available for the company’s clients in 46 UK towns and cities, covering 49% of the population.
Last year, Vegware’s Close the Loop Scotland collections took over 76 tonnes of used Vegware products for composting, while the firm’s waste consultancy service helped 55 clients set up new composting schemes. These clients include the University of Glasgow, The Welding Institute in Cambridge, and Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds.
The COP26 climate summit, held in Glasgow in November, saw Vegware’s composting solution in action. The company’s Close the Loop service collected used disposables and food scraps from Glasgow Science Centre for composting in under 12 weeks, turning catering waste from the event into compost for Scottish fields.
Elsewhere, the Vegware Community Fund supported 160 different projects with grants or product donations.
Vegware was also named Scotland’s fastest growing exporter by the Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200, and the business achieved a Waste2Zero Award highly commended recognition for Foodservice Waste Management & Prevention.
Joe Frankel, Vegware’s MD, said, “I am delighted we are publishing our dedicated Sustainability Report. It’s an opportunity to take stock of our achievements to date, review progress towards our environmental objectives, and to look at how our sustainability pillars dovetail into the climate priorities. And of course, to give this aspect of what we do the focus it deserves.”
