Vegware

Vegware

Vegware

Scottish packaging manufacturer

Vegware is a manufacturer of plant-based and compostable catering disposables, founded by Joe Frankel in Edinburgh in 2006.[1] In 2020, the company was Scotland's fourth fastest growing private company in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100,[2] with an annual sales rise over three years of 44.58%.

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History

Vegware is sold in over 70 countries, with growing global distribution.[3] Headquartered in Scotland, it has bases in the EU, US, Hong Kong and Australia.[4] Its US headquarters, founded in June 2016, is in Huntington Beach, California,[5] taking the company back to where Frankel first had the idea for Vegware.[6]

Vegware packaging is made using renewable, lower carbon, reclaimed or recycled materials,[7] and it is designed to be commercially composted with food waste where accepted.[8] Where there is no access to suitable composting, used products should be placed in general waste.[9]

Work with the waste sector

Its UK and US-based Environmental teams work with the waste sector to provide trade waste collections.[10] Launched in 2020, this is the first large-scale compostables collection service, and was highlighted by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as an example of upstream innovation for packaging.[11] In 2021, Paper Round installed the UK's first sorting line for compostables[12] to increase collection capacity and output quality for composting. Vegware also runs its own Close the Loop composting collection service in Scotland.[13] Vegware has partnered with recycling company First Mile since 2019 to offer a Vegware RecycleBox, a UK-wide courier-led returns service for used Vegware packaging.[14]

In the US, Vegware partnered with food waste, recycling and food donation partners to provide a zero-waste plan for the 2018 Annual Airports Going Green conference.[15] Other countries have reported equal success in composting Vegware; at a forestry event in Belgium,[16] a festival in Hungary[17] and carnival in Trinidad and Tobago,[18] and for district governmental gardens in Estonia.[19]

Awards

It received the Queen's Award for Innovation in 2016.[20][21] In 2019, Vegware was one of ten businesses shortlisted for the ‘Best of VIBES’, in the Scottish Environment Business Awards, for their Close the Loop composting collection Scheme in Scotland.[22]

The company won the ‘Innovations in Packaging award’ at the 2018 Footprint Awards, for their on-product Green Leaf band design and range.[23] In 2021, Vegware was ranked as Scotland's fastest growing exporter, 27th in the UK, by the Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200.[24]

In the 12 months ending January 2019 its turnover was £32.2 million.[25]

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