Suppli: The Future of Sustainable Takeout!

Suppli is a reusable takeout container service that uses an innovative approach to eliminate single-use plastics from the takeout and delivery industry. Female-founded and based in Toronto, Suppli partners with local restaurants to provide reuseable containers so customers can enjoy takeout without the waste. In 10 months, the founders Megan Takeda-Tully & Julianna Grecoand her team have signed up almost 2,000 consumers and 25 partner restaurants and saved 8,500 single-use takeout containers from landfills (for context, that’s 8 minivans worth)! After launching and refining the service in Toronto’s downtown east end, Suppli’s on an exciting growth path building an app to expand city-wide (and beyond!) in the coming years. 

How it all began: Single-use waste has been a problem weighing on the founders for years. While at a dinner party 6 years ago, Megan, floated the idea by a group of friends with no takers. Everyone went on to talk about how convenient single-use products were. The market was not ready. Fast forward to 2019, the same group of people we’re lamenting about the excess amount of packaging that comes with meal kit deliveries! Megan floated the idea of a reusable takeout container service again, and this time, it was a hit. The market was ready! 

And this is why Suppli is on its mission: Globally, we extract an unsustainable amount of resources from the Earth to produce single-use items that are used for a mere 10 minutes and then spend the next 400 years negatively impacting developing countries, nearly 700 species (especially seabirds), and our oceans. Locally, Toronto serves approximately 39M takeout meals per year, which conservatively means we are tossing 78M pieces of waste each year! What’s worse, only 9 % of what we place in our recycling bins actually gets recycled. Also plastic recycling is energy-intense downcycling.