Compass Group Canada Partners With Friendlier, Reusable

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Compass Group Canada as we speak introduced a partnership with native Canadian sustainability start-up, Friendlier, that provides a round reusable packaging system. In 2021, the nation’s main meals service supplier introduced their Planet Promise, a world dedication to succeed in internet zero GHGs by 2050. Today’s announcement builds on this dedication, positioning Friendlier as a key associate to assist speed up progress in direction of lowering and eradicating single use plastics from day-to-day operations. Compass Group Canada will deploy the sustainable packaging resolution, beginning inside their Ontario places within the coming weeks, with the intent to scale up as Friendlier expands throughout Canada. This dedication follows a number of profitable, small-scale pilots of the packaging product over the previous yr.

Friendlier is a Canadian, feminine based business, in market since 2020. The firm began by launching their round reusable packaging providing from a handful of eating places within the Guelph space, now working with large-scale operations all through the GTA. Their containers – a sturdy plastic container made utilizing 24% much less GHGs than a comparable product – presents customers a chance to take part in a very sustainable, full circle packaging course of. The result’s a major lower in using single serve merchandise inside foodservice and take-out environments.

“As a large food service provider, we have the opportunity and responsibility to make a meaningful impact on the planet – every decision we make, every container we can keep out of a landfill – that is critical in reaching our Planet Promise,” mentioned Jana Vodicka, sustainability lead for Compass Group Canada. “We are excited to partner with a local, female-owned company who has developed an innovative way to eliminate single use plastic waste which is something we use every day in our operations. Given our size and scale, this is a significant positive move in fostering circular economies and moving away from the traditional use and dispose method,” she mentioned.

With over 2,100 places throughout Canada, Compass Group is poised to have a major affect on single use plastic waste by way of this partnership. The firm will complement the containers and their related return bins at foodservice places with further instructional supplies that share the complete circle journey with company – from preliminary use to pick-up by the Friendlier group, cleansing, sanitizing and redeployment into the market. Guests can even anticipate to grasp how their participation has an affect by way of Friendlier’s skill to trace and monitor use and subsequently, the offset from single use gadgets – a function Compass Group Canada intends to repeatedly share with taking part groups.

“Our mission at Friendlier has always been to make reusable packaging as easy and as accessible as single-use. This partnership will allow thousands of people to access reusable packaging every day with very minimal changes to their normal routine,” mentioned Jacqueline Hutchings, co-founder and COO at Friendlier. “We are excited to partner with Canada’s largest contract food service company to reduce waste and change the way people think about packaging.”

Compass Group Canada continues to put money into innovation throughout their business to search out new methods to satisfy their Planet Promise. Through their annual meals waste discount marketing campaign, Stop Food Waste Day, Compass Group is rising consciousness on the quantity of meals that’s wasted every year and selling waste-free recipes. The firm’s decarbonisation technique will probably be delivered by way of collaboration, innovation, and funding throughout its international operations, together with particular actions equivalent to:

• Transitioning fleet automobiles globally to 100% plug-in electrical
• Switching to renewable electrical energy throughout all its personal operations
• Reformulating menus to be low carbon and swap in direction of extra plant-based proteins
• Increase sourcing from regenerative agriculture
• Focusing on packaging options to additional scale back single-use plastic
• Reducing meals waste by 50% throughout its operations globally by 2030
• Increasing share of seasonal and regionally sourced produce
• Investing in local weather optimistic tasks worldwide to assist decarbonisation, compensation and neutralisation together with reforestation, biodiversity, freshwater, land and ocean initiatives
• Delivering a world deforestation-free and land conversion-free provide chain technique

About Compass Group Canada

Compass Group Canada is Canada’s main foodservice and assist companies supplier with over 20,000 associates working in additional than 2,100 places all through the nation. The firm focuses on offering foodservices and assist companies, together with services administration and merchandising companies. Compass Group Canada works throughout core sectors together with main sports activities and leisure venues, government eating rooms and cafes, faculties, universities, seniors’ residences, and hospitals in addition to distant camps and offshore oil rigs.

Compass Group Canada has been acknowledged as considered one of Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures in 2021, an award recognizing best-in-class Canadian organizations for having cultures that assist improve efficiency and aggressive benefit, in addition to a Great Place to Work® in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019, as a Best Workplaces™ in Canada in 2022, Best Workplaces™ in Retail and Hospitality in 2021 and 2020 and as a GTA Top Employer in 2021. To study extra, go to www.compass-canada.com, LinkedIn and Instagram.

About Friendlier

Friendlier is a Canadian, female-founded reusable packaging resolution supplier that’s on a mission to remove single-use packaging. Their revolutionary expertise makes it simple for companies to implement reusable packaging applications, whereas monitoring and quantifying their environmental affect. Friendlier was based in 2019 by Kayli Dale and Jacqueline Hutchings, Chemical Engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo with a ardour for sustainability.

Friendlier is Canada’s quickest rising reusable packaging resolution and goals to construct a future the place reusable packaging can substitute single-use packaging. Their high-quality reusable meals containers, easy app to assert deposits, and handy returns makes it simple for customers to take pleasure in their favourite meals, with out the waste. To study extra, go to www.friendlier.ca, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Media Contacts

Compass Group Canada

Courtney Gardner, Sr. Manager, Corporate Communications
[email protected]
647-633-5420

Friendlier

Jacqueline Hutchings, Co-Founder, COO
[email protected]
519-982-5685

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