FPA adds support to Doggy Box campaign

The Foodservice Packaging Association has announced its support for the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s ‘Too Good To Waste’ campaign.

The campaign is designed to cut the amount of food waste going to landfill by encouraging restaurants to offer ‘doggy boxes’ and encouraging consumers to ask for them. According to a survey carried out by the SRA, 25% of those surveyed said they were too embarrassed to ask for a doggy bag or box and a third had never thought to ask.

This campaign very much coincides with our aims by demonstrating how disposable foodservice packaging can help reduce food waste. 

Neil Whitall, Chairman of the Foodservice Packaging Association said: “This is a great example of how the trade can work together to reduce food waste. Doggy bags are common place in the US and we’re delighted to support a campaign designed to make them more acceptable in the UK too. FPA members work to help to reduce food waste by providing packaging products that protect food and beverages, ensuring the consumer is able to enjoy them in perfect, safe and hygienic condition and in a format convenient for their lifestyles.”

The Sustainable Restaurant Association will carry a list of FPA members from whom restaurants can source the packaging required to enable their customers to take uneaten food home safely in a doggy bag or box. London Bio Packaging has supplied the doggy boxes used to launch this campaign. Members are now invited to be included in the Sustainable Restaurant Association's web site devoted to this campaign as a provider of suitable doggy box packaging. The specification requires the 'packaging contain some recycled material and be compostable, biodegradeable or recyclable once used'. Please contact FPA administration if you would like to be incouded in the SRA web site as a supplier.