Just in time for the two-year anniversary of Recup The Munich-based startup is launching a test phase with Rebowl, a reusable deposit box that is intended to serve as an alternative to disposable packaging in the food sector.
What works for coffee will soon also be applied to the food sector: a deposit system for takeaway food. In a three-month test phase, Recup, together with five local partner restaurateurs, plans to examine how a deposit system for takeaway food packaging can work. At the same time, Vanilla Bean, a packaging-free delivery service from Regensburg, is also using Rebowls during the test phase. Recup and Vanilla Bean want to jointly evaluate how a reusable deposit system can be implemented in the food sector.
Find resource-saving alternatives
The aim is to permanently avoid the large amount of disposable to-go packaging and to offer a resource-saving alternative without having to forego the convenient options of takeaway and delivery services.
Test phase Munich: How it works
In Munich, customers order their takeaway food from one of the five local catering partners in the Rebowl and pay a €5 deposit for the reusable container. Empty containers can be returned to the participating partners for a refund. The containers are cleaned on-site and then immediately reused. Siggis, Orange Box, Aloha Poke, Mutter Erde, and Ida's Milchladen are participating in the test phase in Munich.
Customer feedback desired
"Our goal is to eliminate disposable packaging in the to-go sector. In addition to coffee to go, the food sector is a major topic here. We are pleased to be working with Vanilla Bean to make the important area of delivery services more sustainable in the future. The numbers speak for themselves: In Germany alone, 10 million people ordered food online and had it delivered in 2016."
so Fabian Eckert, one of the two founders and managing directors of Recup. After two years of existence, the Munich startup is thus expanding the deposit concept to another product.
The feedback from participating restaurateurs and customers during the three-month test phase will be actively incorporated into the development of the new deposit system, so that Rebowl can become a resource-saving and waste-avoiding alternative to disposable packaging. In this context, Recup is also pleased about User feedback.
Guests also bear responsibility
The five testing restaurateurs are pleased to be contributing to the development of a deposit system in the takeaway sector as Rebowl partners.
"Sustainability plays a crucial role in our restaurant. Together with Rebowl, we're taking another important step in this direction and simultaneously showing our guests that they, too, can take responsibility for waste prevention."
so Thomas Avemaria of the Siggis restaurant. The other test partners, Orange Box, Aloha Poke and Mutter Erde, as well as Ida's Milchladen, have also firmly integrated sustainability into their concepts.
