The containers are being tested with three of Just Eat's 'restaurant partners' in London.
While online food platforms are becoming popular with the public, many of the restaurants that actually deliver the food are heavily reliant on plastic containers.
In an announcement Tuesday, Just Eat said the container was able to decompose in four weeks if put in a home compost. The seaweed-lined cardboard boxes are produced from tree and grass pulp, and contain no synthetic additives, according to the company. Launched in Denmark in 2001, Just Eat enables consumers to place online takeout orders with local restaurants using tech such as tablets, cellphones, computers and voice assistants.
"Over half a billion plastic boxes are used across the takeaway industry every year and we know that eventually, they end up in landfill," Andrew Kenny, managing director at Just Eat U.K., said. This trial has prevented more than 46,000 plastic sachets from entering the homes of customers, according to the firm. Just Eat said it was now working with Hellmann's, a"The takeaway food industry creates a mountain of waste and plastic pollution every year, so we welcome Just Eat's efforts in trying to improve the situation," Tony Bosworth, plastic campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said in a statement issued via Just Eat.
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