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 localized 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 organizations 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 organizations.
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 Japan, a restaurant’s packaging meets Uber’s Green Packaging criteria if it’s widely recyclable or made from renewable materials, and avoids banned, problematic, or hazardous materials such as PFAS.
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.