Reducing carbon emissions every step of the way
Our short supply chain ensures every meal kit is delivered to your door with fewer stops and less waste.
Fast and fresh: HelloFresh's efficient supply chain
With HelloFresh, it’s easy to reduce carbon emissions at mealtimes. Thanks to our short supply chain, ingredients make fewer stops between the supplier and you. Food gets to you faster and stays fresh for longer, producing fewer carbon emissions and less food waste*.
As the world’s biggest meal-kit provider, HelloFresh recognises the important role we play in the food industry and the opportunity we have to make a meaningful impact.
"Food gets to you faster and stays fresh for longer, producing fewer carbon emissions and less food waste."
Cooking with fewer carbon emissions
HelloFresh conducted a life cycle assessment study (LCA) to analyze the journey and average impact of a vegetarian, chicken and beef meal from start to finish. The study found that cooking with HelloFresh creates 15% fewer carbon emissions than the same meals made from supermarket ingredients.
Measuring the kilometres of your ingredients
While ingredient production is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions, our short supply chain goes a long way to reducing CO2 emissions.
Your HelloFresh ingredients are sourced locally wherever possible. Not only do they travel shorter distances, but there are fewer stops between the supplier and your door. This makes for fewer carbon emissions and, because we only buy ingredients in the right amounts, creates significantly less food waste.
Serving up meals with fewer emissions
You can now add meals with fewer carbon emissions to your HelloFresh box. These are recipes on the menu with the smallest carbon footprint, producing at least 50% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than an average HelloFresh meal in a given week. To calculate the environmental impact, HelloFresh partnered with HowGood to assess the “CO2 equivalent” (CO2e) of our recipes. This includes greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the production and processing of ingredients."Every week you can order recipes that create 50% fewer CO2e than other meals."
Powering up energy efficiencies
We've made great strides in reducing our carbon footprint! All of our Australian distribution centres now run on renewable energy. That means that 100% of our meal kits are packed in centres run on either solar panels or GreenPower.
We're not stopping there though. We will continue to make small- and large-scale changes, from replacing equipment to establishing strict criteria for energy suppliers, to further shrink our carbon impact.