CauliBox’s Digitally-Enabled Reusable LUnch-Box Scheme (DERLUBS)

随着全球人口的增长，塑料的生产、消费和处理也在不断增加。塑料产量已从1950年的每年150万吨增长到2018年的3.59亿吨，但其中只有9%被回收利用（Plastics Europe, 2019）。虽然塑料包装彻底改变了我们储存和消费食物的方式，但在我们的星球上，越来越多的塑料包装也带来了许多负面影响。为此，CauliBox开发了一种独特的解决方案来应对“外带食品”的一次性塑料包装挑战：一种数字化的可重复使用午餐盒计划，奖励可持续行为。CauliBox的目标是颠覆城市食品行业，通过使采购、回收、收集和清洗午餐盒的过程变得方便和可重复使用，帮助客户和供应商过渡到可重复使用的盒子。在这个项目中，CauliBox将与Sustainable Ventures和威斯敏斯特市议会合作，在伦敦的一群食品供应商中进行可重复使用的午餐盒计划的试验。因此，CauliBox直接解决了SSPPP和英国塑料公约的问题，即到2025年减少进入环境的塑料废物数量。

Linked to a global increasing population, is the increasing production, consumption and disposal of plastics. Plastic production has grown from 1.5 million tonnes per annum in 1950 to 359 million tonnes in 2018, yet only 9% of this is recycled (Plastics Europe, 2019). While plastic packaging has revolutionised the way in which we store and consume food, there are many negative impacts associated with the growing amount of plastic packaging on our planet.In response, CauliBox has developed a unique solution to address the 'food-to-go' single-use plastic packaging challenge: a digitally-enabled reusable lunchbox scheme that rewards sustainable behaviours. CauliBox's aim is to disrupt the urban food industry, helping customers and vendors transition to reusable boxes by making the processes of sourcing, returning, collecting and washing lunch boxes, convenient and reusable. In this project, CauliBox will partner with Sustainable Ventures and Westminster City Council to deliver a trial of its reusable lunch box scheme in within a cluster of food vendors in London. As a result, CauliBox directly addresses both the SSPPP and UK Plastics Pact to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment by 2025\.