Notpla 72d ago

Every day, hundreds of people move through Arup’s canteen. Breakfast, lunch, coffee in between. Food needs to be prepared, served and picked up quickly. Like most workplace catering environments, everything is designed to keep things moving. Packaging is part of that system, even if it’s rarely noticed. It holds the product, presents it on the shelf and, once used, disappears into the wider flow of the day. But that routine is starting to shift. Across workplace catering, reducing single-use plastic is becoming less of an ambition and more of an operational question. How do you remove it without slowing everything else down? At Arup, that question became something more deliberate.