AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being, Sustainable Cities & Communities, Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
meal kit, sustainability, food waste, packaging, United States
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Just Salad
WEBSITE
https://www.gethousemade.com/
Housemade by Just Salad
A Home Meal Kit Without Plastic.
Housemade, a new meal kit brand, tries to address the problems of waste. It will help decrease packaging by 90% versus standard meal kits and eliminates plastic containers. Unlike the big meal kit companies, Housemade uses the Just Salad shops as "micro fulfillment centers," reducing the travel distance to within bicycle range. Being basically a meal in a salad bowl, they don't need so many kinds of packaging in the first place, but they have got it down to a few package sizes made of recyclable paper and compostable fiber. They have a packaging manifesto: (1) No plastic pouches, (2) Nothing should go to landfill and (3) No packaging is the best packaging.