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Spud Sustainability Actions

Stopped selling plastic water bottles

SPUD.ca has discontinued the sale of all single-use plastic water bottles from their website. All still, sparkling, and flavoured water will now only be available in glass bottles and aluminum cans.

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Launched Pink Bag Takeback

The company launched its Pink Bag Takeback program, an initiative that encourages SPUD.ca customers to return the packaging of Be Fresh products into their grocery bins. These reusable grocery bins are then picked up by SPUD.ca's delivery fleet and the Be Fresh packaging is recycled through the company's partnership with Terracycle.

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Reduced food waste in operations

SPUD says it has the lowest food waste of any grocery retailer in Canada and has taken several steps to make waste reduction part of its business strategy. It has no food displays, and fewer hands on produce means that less gets thrown away. The company’s FoodX technology flags when a product with a short lifespan needs to go on sale, and it forecasts demand as far as two weeks in advance.

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Sells imperfect produce

SPUD also sells imperfect produce, which is typically rejected by grocery stores. To win over consumers, it has created recipes for such fruits and vegetables with local nonprofit Food Stash Foundation.

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Diverts unsold food

McShane’s Food Waste Fighters team finds a home for anything the 280-employee business can’t sell: “I have, like, six food insecurity organizations on my speed dial.”

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Runs a TakeBack program

SPUD runs a TakeBack program that collects soft plastic packaging from customers and sends it to TerraCycle, which upcycles the material into new products.

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Uses reusable delivery bins

The company delivers its food via van in reusable plastic bins, picking up empty bins as they drop off full ones. SPUD says this is a circular model and that its delivery model keeps cars off the road by delivering 1,500 to 2,000 orders each day.

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Diverted waste with FoodX

In one year, SPUD diverted 265,971 kilograms of waste from the landfill, preventing 444 tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere, and saved 3,564,275 liters of water.

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About Spud

  • Status
  • Unverified
  • Employees
  • 100 - 500
  • Country
  • Canada