OzHarvest

Zero Waste Food Truck

catering

OzHarvest is on a mission to tackle food waste and hunger in Australia. With a passion for food and a commitment to social justice, their team collects quality surplus food and delivers it to charities that feed vulnerable communities throughout Greater Sydney, the Central Coast and Wollongong.

OzHarvest’s Zero Waste Food Truck 

As part of their mission to reduce food waste, OzHarvest also operates a 100% vegetarian, zero waste Food Truck catering service. Clients can hire the chef-run Food Truck for events and the money raised is  put back into OzHarvest’s main mission of creating a more sustainable and equitable food system.

Zero Waste Food Truck x Zero Waste Mealboxes

Now, what a zero waste Food Truck needs is a zero waste food container option! Previously the OzHarvest Food Truck used compostable single-use to serve meals at events. However, when they discovered that these could not actually be composted in NSW the team became concerned about the waste going to landfill and approached us.

And because we love OzHarvest’s work, rePlated decided to donate the remainder of our first gen Avo Smash Mealboxes to OzHarvest to help them solve this problem and become Australia’s first zero waste Food Truck. 

Feedback from OzHarvest’s first event using the Mealboxes

• Mealboxes are very user friendly and take up less space than single use as they are quite compact.

• Mealboxes worked well for fast food service. We needed to serve a lot of people at once, so we laid the Mealboxes out to serve.

• We made sure food scraps went to compost and used crates to stack the returned Mealboxes in for washing, 

• The washing team were happy as the Mealboxes washed well (a lot easier to wash than plates). A simple spray before the dishwasher was enough.

We loved working with the team at OzHarvest to help them eliminate packaging waste as well as food waste and take their trailblazing Zero Waste Food Truck to the next level of sustainability. 

project stats

• 1 Food Truck

• 700 Mealboxes

• 4 collection buckets

Impact

• 0 single-use containers used at the event

• OzHarvest have a zero waste packaging option for their Food Truck service - making it zero waste on every level!

“It elevated the Food Truck service and made it quite special. The event organisers were happy and were appreciative about the lack of waste”

Georgina Budd
Chef Administrator, OzHarvest

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