Our current boxes are 100% recyclable, but we want to go one step further to reduce our environmental impact, so we can also collect your old boxes and reuse them!
There are a couple of things you’ll need to do when you send them back to us:
Carefully open the top of your box by gently easing the glued seal apart. Tip: Try not to rip the cardboard - just open it slowly.
- Unbox your fruit and veg as usual, then gently open the glued seal on the bottom of the box just like you did the top.
- Carefully flatten the box, but don’t bend or fold it - it needs to be flat for our drivers to collect it!
- Leave the flattened box in a safe, dry spot on your delivery night - make sure our drivers can see it.
- Your delivery driver will pick it up and return it to us. We’ll check it over, clean it up and reuse it.
There are a few things we can’t accept back:
- Wet boxes: As we pick up when we deliver, wet boxes could damage fruit and veg in other boxes on board.
- Boxes that haven’t been carefully flattened: Our vans are packed with as many boxes as possible to make deliveries efficient, so drivers don't have lots of spare space.
- More than one box returned at once: To help make sure your driver can fit your returned boxes in the van, please try to give them back straight away, rather than saving up a collection.
If, for whatever reason, we aren’t able to reuse a box ourselves, we’ve partnered with Reuseabox. They take almost anything that we can’t use and provide it a second life on their marketplace, giving other businesses the chance to reduce their own impact. Better yet, they use a portion of their profits to fund environmental initiatives!