Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 20:58:06 GMT -8
Uber Eats is moving towards a sustainable path and, in alliance with the companies EcoShell and Entelequia, is launching a pilot plan to replace traditional packaging with biodegradable ones.
In recent years, the oceans have become Chile Mobile Number List dumping grounds for more than eight million tons of plastic waste. The vast majority of this single-use waste comes from food consumption, according to the United Nations. For this reason, Uber Eats has partnered with these companies to give restaurant partners more options so they can access packaging made from cornstarch, sugar cane, avocado, corn starch (PLA) and wheat straw. .
The containers will be available at preferential prices to thousands of restaurants and users of the Uber Eats app. Partners such as Mora Mora, Hooters and Cancino are already part of these efforts, while others such as Alsea and Wingstop already have plans to join this initiative in the coming months. Uber Eats plans to expand the advantages of these alliances to 100% of its restaurant partners in Mexico by the first half of 2020.
“This is a very good initiative by Uber Eats. Through this alliance, we are betting everything to impact the greatest number of restaurants within the platform and reduce together the environmental impact that exists today with traditional packaging,” highlighted Carlos Camacho, CEO of EcoShell.
Elizabeth Nava, founder of Entelequia, pointed out that the objective of this project is to take advantage of the leadership that Uber Eats has due to its global impact in the market to transform food delivery at home. “It is better to work in synergy, so we advance faster. Putting everyone's strengths on the table will always give better results,” she remarked.
Additionally, in September, Uber Eats launched a function with which millions of orders in Latin America can now be sent without additional utensils. Although this mode rules out the sending of single-use items by default, it allows users who want to receive them to declare it explicitly, checking this option when they add items to the cart.
“We want biodegradable, compostable and recyclable options to be available in all Latin American markets in the short term, and for our restaurant partners to adopt these ecological packaging so that together we achieve an environmentally fair circular economy,” concluded Eduardo Donnelly, General Director of Uber Eats in Latin America.
