Sustainability, health and the environment
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Our sustainability objectives
Reduce emissions
Minimise direct and indirect carbon emissions.
Waste reduction
Significantly lower the amount of waste products in all areas.
Responsible sourcing
Include environmental and societal impact when selecting new products and services.
Community engagement
Raise awareness of a sustainable active lifestyle.
Supplier engagement
Work with suppliers to achieve our own and their sustainability objectives.
How we reduce our food waste
End of day reductions
Any hot food and sandwiches left at the end of the day in our outlets are sold at reduced prices, with 50% off some prices.
Food donations
There is also a Foodbank drop off point in Rootes Grocery Store to collect food items to help local people. We're working in partnership with the Students' Union and Coventry FoodbankLink opens in a new window.
Mystery food bags
We support Too Good To GoLink opens in a new window. Buy and collect unsold food - at a great price - so it gets eaten instead of wasted. You won’t know what you're collecting, it’s all part of the surprise.
Find out when you can collect a Too Good To Go bag at the following outlets:
What we're doing
Ethical commitment to coffee
We work with all of our coffee suppliers to ensure they have a strong ethical policy on how coffee is grown and produced, to ensure the environment is sustained.
All of our coffee grounds are collected and go to composting.
Reducing single use plastic on campus
We've removed all single use plastic cups and incentivise people to bring their own reusable cups with loyalty stamps and discounts. We also only offer paper straws and wooden/biodegradable cutlery.
Single use bags have also been removed from our outlets. We operate a bag exchange in Rootes Grocery Store so people can donate or borrow any spare bags.
Supporting local farmers
Where possible, we try to source local ingredients and use local suppliers, which helps to reduce our CO2 emissions.
We believe in using local farmers that produce great products and take care of their animals.
Environment
We work closely with the Environmental SustainabilityLink opens in a new window team in Estates, the Students' Union and other University of Warwick departments to try and reduce our impact on the environment.
A healthy you
Providing healthy options that are easy to find and promoted in all our outlets.
Vegan and vegetarian options appear at the top of our menus to highlight and promote them to customers.
We aim to provide for different lifestyles, dietary requirements and budgets. Undertaking research to help guide our decisions, we often change our healthy options offer where possible.