With over 200 restaurants across Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, Zambrero is spreading ‘Feel Good Mex’ across the globe! The popular Mexican-inspired food franchise is on a mission to donate 1 billion meals by 2025 through its ‘Plate 4 Plate’ Initiative.
Thanks to Compost Connect, Zambrero UK is partnering with Zap Waste to compost their compostable food packaging and food scraps. Since opening its first UK outlet in June 2021, Zambrero’s Kentish Town store has successfully diverted 1,000+ kilograms of compostable BioPak packaging from landfill.
To serve up their iconic burrito bowls, nachos, tacos and quesadillas to hungry patrons, Zambrero uses BioPak’s compostable containers, lids, and wooden cutlery. BioPak’s custom-made sugarcane containers replace the single-use plastic bowls that would typically be used by other Mexican fast-food restaurants.
“BioPak and Zambrero have a long-standing relationship in Australia and BioPak has continued to support Zambrero with its expansion in the UK. Zambrero UK’s involvement with Compost Connect was a natural choice to support an initiative that allows our customers to actually compost our compostable BioPak packaging. In a region where consumers take corporate social responsibility very seriously, this is another way Zambrero demonstrates i’s ‘Feel Good Mex’ commitment to make a real difference.” – Emily Teh, Chief Executive Officer – Zambrero UK