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Bring your own lunch box to cut plastic waste

2025-03-27

You might only be grabbing a sandwich, crisps and maybe a cake and coffee, but that unremarkable weekday lunch can produce four or more items of waste.
That adds up: the UK's lunch-on-the-go habit is creating nearly 11 billion pieces of packaging every year, says environmental campaign group Hubbub.
Their solution? More packed lunches.
But if you do buy lunch, take your own container to the shop and ask them to fill it, the charity suggests.
Hubbub surveyed 1,200 UK office workers and more than half of them said they were buying takeaway lunches more than they used to five years ago, generating an estimated 276 items of waste per person per year.
"People are saying that they are buying food to take out because life has got busier," says Hubbub's Tessa Tricks. "It's that sense that, 'I'm important and having this on the go will make me do things more efficiently,' but sometimes sitting with crockery and cutlery and enjoying it would be better."
Ms Tricks argues it is usually both healthier and cheaper to make a packed lunch, but the charity is also encouraging people to pop a plastic box in their bag alongside their reusable coffee cup, if they plan to buy takeaway food.