Sustainability

Doing better for our planet

Aiming to be Carbon Neutral By

2030

Choose Clean & Reduce your Carbon Footprint by

50%

Clean Foundation to be launched in

2023

Race to Zero

Here at Clean Kitchen, we recognise that sustainability is at the forefront of our business success and growth model. We have therefore made it our mission to set the goal of becoming completely carbon neutral by 2030, hereby joining the global “race to zero”.


To ensure this, we are constantly working to introduce new initiatives, whilst updating our current initiatives, to become more and more sustainable. We consider all operations from the top to the bottom of our business structure, including: packaging, responsible procurement, effective waste management, meaningful brand partnerships and carbon calculating of our meals and products.


 Additionally, we will soon be introducing the Clean Foundation to the Clean Kitchen Club brand, which will act as Cleans philanthropic arm. 

As a food brand, it is essential to have sustainable and environmentally conscious packaging in order to improve the sustainability of our overall operations here at Clean Kitchen.

We work closely with the team at Brand Your (www.brandyour.co) to ensure that we both reduce the amount of packaging we use, whilst only using the most environmentally friendly materials available on the market. Brand Your are constantly looking out for the best and most eco-conscious products to update their packaging profile with, and always provides sustainable delivery solutions to help reduce our impact on the environment further. 

Waste management is an essential part of Clean Kitchens sustainability strategy. There have been many waste management strategies that have been implemented at our sites and dark kitchens.

MENU DESIGN

Our menus have been designed so that ingredients can be repurposed to increase their lifespan. For example, one-day-old bananas are used as acai toppers and two-day-old bananas are frozen for smoothies!).


MADE-TO-ORDER SYSTEMS

All dark kitchens operate their food on a made-to-order system, so that food is kept fresh and waste is minimized by eradicating a ‘grab and go’ section for food whereby sandwiches and wraps are stacked in fridges. Our Clean Kitchen sites even have a ‘build your own section, whereby customers can choose exactly which fillings and toppings they would like on their acai bowls, sandwiches, and wraps!


FOOD WASTE IS SAVED WITH TOO GOOD TO GO

Unfortunately, our on-site bakes cannot be made to order due to their longer cooking process. Therefore, if we have any of these left over at the end of the day they are sold on the Too Good To Go app for a discounted price. This means no food is wasted and customers in the local community are left chuffed with a bargain of delicious pastries to enjoy.


RECYCLING

Each of our stores and dark kitchens has a rigorous recycling scheme which has been tailored specifically to match their council's waste management scheme. This ensures all recycling is done efficiently and effectively. Waste bins are divided into glass, paper/cardboard, plastic, cans (or mixed recycling), general waste, and food waste.

CARBON CALCULATING & CARBON NEUTRAL MEALS

Carbon calculating is central to our sustainability framework here at Clean Kitchen. We work with our partners at My Emissions to calculate the carbon footprint of every ingredient that makes up each meal, as well as the cooking and delivery process of each ingredient, in order to calculate the entire carbon footprint of each individual meal.


Depending on how large or small the carbon footprint of the meal is, it is then carbon labelled using our A to E rating through our colour coded leaves (rating A having the lowest carbon footprint and therefore having a dark green leaf marked next to it). By doing this we are now the first vegan food brand to have carbon labelled our entire menu. Our carbon labels can be found next to each menu item, allowing you to see your direct impact on the environment when eating a Clean meal. 


CARBON LABELLING THE DELIVEROO MENU

Carbon Labels on Deliveroo are shown slightly differently (because we are unable to put our official labels on the Deliveroo menu items). Therefore, coloured hearts have been used to show the carbon footprint of each menu item,


Carbon Label A = Green Heart

Carbon Label B = Orange Heart

Carbon Label C = Blue Heart


Check us out on Vegan Food & Living and on Gul Food Manufacturing.

The Clean Foundation

The Clean Foundation will provide both charitable support and exposure to local community groups, as well as larger international projects, and will act as Clean Kitchens carbon offsetting strategy.


We have done our research and believe that after supporting numerous external offsetting schemes, inputting a % of all sales into our own Clean Foundation will be more impactful both environmentally and socially.


The Clean Foundation has far reaching potential and we are so exciting to be launching it in 2022. So hold this space!


At the moment, we are focusing on SDGs: 3, 9, 11, 12, 13 – but we aim to fulfill all of these SDGs by 2025.


The Clean brand is built around being as sustainable as possible and learning new sustainable initiatives each and every day. We do this by promoting a sustainable lifestyle, improving on fitness and, most importantly, by eating a plant-based ‘Clean’ diet.


YOU MAY ASK “WHY ARE PLANT-BASED DIETS SO IMPORTANT?”…

…Well, plant-based diets are a huge part of living a sustainable lifestyle and by adopting one you can reduce your carbon footprint by 50%. This is because, the livestock sector is the largest human-made user of land; with meat, eggs, dairy and aquaculture production systems using 83% of the world’s agricultural land while providing only 37% of the world’s protein and 18% of the world’s calories! Additionally, by requiring extensive landmasses, animal agriculture is a major driver of deforestation, species extinction, land degradation, pollution and depletion of water resources. Adopting a plant-based diet is therefore essential in the fight against climate change and is an easy way to reduce our individual carbon footprints.

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NOT (JUST) FOR VEGANS

Here at Clean Kitchen Club, we make this necessary shift easier by providing the plant-based alternatives of all your classic every day meals, so that you can enjoy your favourite dishes completely conscious free! Our broad menu features healthy salads, wraps, açai bowls and rice bowls, as well as indulgent burgers and loaded fries – we promise you will not be missing out! By providing all of these delicious vegan alternatives, Clean prides itself on being “not just for vegans” as we aim to bring plant-based to the mainstream so that even non-vegans can make the easy switch to a more plant-based diet.

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