Delivering an award winning returnable packaging system for food & beverage brands to achieve a zero waste future
CLUBZERØ has pioneered in delivering an award winning returnable packaging system for food and beverage brands globally. CLUBZERØ partners with businesses to make food and beverage on-the-go more sustainable; working together towards the ultimate goal of zero waste. Today they serve customers across the EU and North America, including the worlds largest food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway, NextGen Consortium brands (Starbucks, McDonald’s, Yum Brands, Nestle, Wendy’s) as well as leading food service company Baxter Storey, Cushman & Wakefield, Just Eat and retailer John Lewis & Partners. With a philosophy of making reusables a convenient alternative to single-use packaging, they’ve achieved a market leading return-rate of 95% vs industry standard of 60%. Their aim moving forward is to build the next robust sustainable consumption model that sees their efforts roll out beyond food and beverage to other reusable product categories such as Home and Body through the scale of operations they have already built.
Notable Achievements
- Winner of Fast Company Best UX Design, New Plastics Economy Ellen MacArthur Foundation & IDEO NextGen Cup Challenge
- Saved over 1Million items of single-use plastics through operations to date in UK & North America
- Design Lead for World Economic Forum working group on Reusables. Jury Member for packaging and product design awards
Currently Operating in One Region
Press Mentions

October 21, 2021
New blockbuster Design Museum exhibition ushers in the “waste age” | Design Week
The opening of the exhibition coincides with the upcoming COP26 conference, and interrogates how design can tackle the critical problem of waste.
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November 17, 2022
Just Eat for Business expands reusable packaging offer
Food delivery giant builds on partnership with CLUBZERØ to offer business customers reusable packaging
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September 1, 2021
Not so convenient
Our reliance on convenience food and drink is ‘killing the planet’, and it’s on you and me to fix it, says Safia Qureshi, CEO, CLUBZERO.
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