{"id":15916,"date":"2021-05-21T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15916"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:28:26","slug":"carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/carbon-emissions","title":{"rendered":"Eating Gousto Could Reduce Your Carbon Emissions By 23%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In our quest to make sure every meal leaves the world better off, we\u2019ve received some very exciting news. A weekly Gousto box reduces your carbon emissions <b>by a whopping 23%<\/b> compared to buying the same food at a supermarket.<\/p>\n<h2>What that could mean<\/h2>\n<p>If UK households replaced supermarket dinners with meals from Gousto for just one year, we could save 10.3 million tonnes of CO2e.<\/p>\n<p><b>That\u2019s the same as taking 141,910 buses off the road! <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Together, we could make waste, excess plastic and carbon pollution from food a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15919\" src=\"https:\/\/gousto.gurucloud.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1216_Carbon-emissions-title_food-waste.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1125\" \/>From allspice to yellow peppers, every ingredient in our recipes is meticulously planned and pre-portioned. That means there\u2019s almost zero food waste in our factories, or in your home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15921\" src=\"https:\/\/gousto.gurucloud.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1216_Carbon-emissions-title_emissions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2250\" height=\"2250\" \/>There are a lot of stops along the usual supermarket supply chain, and all those cars and trucks release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, whether it\u2019s sourcing or delivering food, we\u2019re doing our bit to lower emissions from the road (and the air) as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We do this by delivering food from our factories to your door, making your weekly shop convenient <i>and<\/i> more planet-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>We also reduce time from farm to fork by packing your boxes with all the seasonal fruit and veg we can get our hands on, and always buy British, wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15920\" src=\"https:\/\/gousto.gurucloud.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1216_Carbon-emissions-title_plastic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2250\" height=\"2250\" \/>Thanks to the invention of our Eco Chill Box, we halved the plastic in our boxes last year, saving a whopping 266 tonnes since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>All of this adds up so that every Gousto meal is reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food waste, plastic and cars on the road.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love for you to join us on our journey as we grow with purpose, invest in fighting climate change and work toward our goal of making every meal leave the world better off.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about how we\u2019re doing our bit, check out this post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/meet-the-eco-chill-box\">our Eco Chill Box invention<\/a>. You can also get the latest on how we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/reduce-plastic-packaging-pledge\">reducing plastic packaging.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, for the easiest way to reduce your carbon emissions, why not <a href=\"http:\/\/gousto.co.uk\/menu\">order a box<\/a>? Whether you\u2019re veggie, flexi or just hungry, our genius chefs cook up more than 60 mouthwatering options to choose from each week.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In our quest to make sure every meal leaves the world better off, we\u2019ve received some very exciting news. A weekly Gousto box reduces your carbon emissions by a whopping 23% compared to buying the same food at a supermarket. What that could mean If UK households replaced supermarket dinners with meals from Gousto &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/carbon-emissions\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eating Gousto Could Reduce Your Carbon Emissions By 23%&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[644,643,522],"tags":[180,525,625,963,964,965],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reduce-food-waste","category-sustainability","category-about-gousto","tag-food-waste","tag-gousto","tag-sustainability","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-plastic-packaging","tag-supermarket"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/gousto.gurucloud.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1216_Carbon-emissions-blog-header.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mimi","author_link":"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/author\/mimi"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eating Gousto Could Reduce Your Carbon Emissions By 23% | Gousto Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gousto.co.uk\/blog\/carbon-emissions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eating Gousto Could Reduce Your Carbon Emissions By 23%\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In our quest to make sure every meal leaves the world better off, we\u2019ve received some very exciting news. 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