Why choose green packaging?

Transitioning to more sustainable packaging can help your business meet evolving regulatory requirements, reduce your environmental footprint and satisfy consumers’ growing demand for environmentally responsible practices.

Be a leader in your community

Consumers often seek brands that align with their values and that they believe make a positive impact on the world around them. And at the heart of the community, the hospitality industry has a critical role to play in bringing those values to life.

By joining other environmentally conscious businesses, you’re not just adopting more sustainable practices – you’re also setting an example and highlighting your commitment to supporting a healthier planet.

Show customers you care

Transitioning to green packaging gives you a chance to connect with the large – and growing – number of eco-conscious consumers who want to support climate-friendly business practices.

In fact, in an effort to live more sustainably, 71% of global consumers reported having made modest to significant changes to their consumption behaviours. On average, across all categories, 32% of consumers were willing to pay more for sustainable products and services.*

Making the switch to more sustainable packaging can help you stand out to these values-focused customers.

Earn the Green Packaging badge

To encourage the switch to more-sustainable packaging, Uber Eats launched its Green Packaging badge in select markets.** 

Visible on merchant storefronts in the Uber Eats app, the badge makes it easy for consumers to find and support restaurants that are making a positive difference by using more-sustainable packaging.

If you want to learn more about how you can qualify for the badge, check out the sustainable packaging guidelines for your region.

Uber Eats is working toward a more sustainable future

Uber is committed to doing the right thing, period—especially when it comes to sustainability. That’s why the company is working to lower emissions and reduce packaging waste, with a plan to be a zero-emission platform globally by 2040 and to have 100% of Uber Eats restaurant merchants around the globe transition to reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaging by 2030.

Check out this blog post to learn about the road to more-sustainable packaging.

Join Uber on its mission

As a global delivery platform and a Founding Partner of the Earthshot Prize, Uber is uniquely positioned to help drive adoption of the most creative new solutions to the world’s biggest environmental challenges.

Uber is proud to provide access to a marketplace where like-minded businesses can purchase impactful products from innovative companies such as 2022 Earthshot Prize winner Notpla.

In 2023 alone, Notpla’s seaweed-based alternative to single-use plastic items helped displace the equivalent of 8.5 tons of plastic waste. Purchasing its products—and those from other Green Packaging Marketplace suppliers—can help drive our collective movement toward a more sustainable future.

*2022 Global Sustainability Study: The Growth Potential of Environmental Change, Simon-Kucher (October 23, 2022), simon-kucher.com/en/insights/2022-global-sustainability-study-growth-potential-environmental-change.

**Select markets currently include Australia, France, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.