Our goal for reducing packaging waste
At Uber Eats, our goal is for 100% of restaurant deliveries to use more sustainable packaging by 2030. By setting clear criteria, supporting restaurants to adopt greener packaging, and sharing waste-disposal tips with customers, we’re helping to reduce the environmental impact of food delivery.
Introducing Uber’s Green Packaging badge
Millions of people around the world enjoy the convenience of Uber Eats, and we want to help them do that more sustainably.
Look for our new Green Packaging badge – it highlights restaurants that are using more sustainable packaging, making it easy for you to find and support them.
Understanding Uber’s methodology and criteria
We’ve partnered with industry experts to create localised green-packaging criteria, tailored to local regulations and waste treatment infrastructure.
Packaging is assessed against these criteria to help us identify the restaurants that qualify for our Green Packaging badge. To verify compliance, Uber collaborates with local independent organisations to conduct comprehensive assessments including periodic order sampling and leverages other verification methods as needed. We also rely on merchants to provide input and to review and confirm the accuracy of packaging information obtained by our partner organisations.
Restaurants with the badge meet Uber’s Green Packaging criteria, which requires that at least 90% of their food delivery packaging is reusable, recyclable or compostable. Merchants’ broader sustainability practices are not considered in this assessment. You can find out more below.
Green Packaging criteria
In Australia, a restaurant’s packaging meets Uber’s Green Packaging criteria if it’s widely recyclable and avoids banned, problematic or hazardous materials such as added PFAS. In South Australia and Western Australia, where there are composting facilities, certified compostable packaging also qualifies.
What happens after your order matters, too
More and more people are taking the effort to dispose of things properly. We’ve teamed up with experts to offer tips for how to dispose of packaging in your area.
How to dispose | ||
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Plastic bag | You can’t recycle plastic bags at home, but please reuse them. For example, take one when you go out or use it as a bin liner at home. | |
Aluminium wrapper | Remove any leftover food from the packaging, and scrunch it into a golf-ball-sized ball; this improves its recyclability. | |
Lined paper cup | If the cup is certified compostable (look for the Seedling logo), it can be placed in a compost bin if your council offers this service. It won’t break down in most home composting systems. If it is not certified compostable, put it in your normal waste bin. | |
Pizza box | Make sure all food leftovers and absorbent liners are removed from the box (a small amount of grease is fine) before disposing of it in your paper recycling bin. If there is too much food residue on the base of the box, you can tear off the lid and recycle the cleaner half. | |
Plastic food container with lid | Remove leftover food and rinse off any residue, which can influence the recyclability of the container. Then place it in the plastics recycling. |
We’re here to help, but this content is for informational purposes only and shouldn’t be relied upon as business or legal advice from Uber. We’ve teamed up with experts to help provide packaging information and determine our eligibility criteria for our Green Packaging badges. Assessment for badges may also partly rely upon information provided to us by merchants, which Uber may not independently verify.