Sustainable Guacatruck

I’m 100% on the bandwagon in the food cart craze in vancouver; it’s such a cool concept, decently priced, convenient depending on the food cart’s location that day and there’s no need to pay tips!  I forgot to mention that the food usually tastes great too! My favorites in Vancouver are La Brasserie Street just outside the London Drugs on Granville, Re-up food cart (pulled pork burgers!), and JapaDog. I’ve never thought about the sustainability of these trucks though until I came across an article on Guactruck, which uses sustainability as one of its marketing points. Considering the refrigeration, disposable packaging containers that the food comes in, and the truck that drives around every single day to bring the truck to the right location — it’s hard to imagine how a food truck would be very sustainable.

This is what Guactruck claims as its sustainable initiatives:

“Truck

Guactruck is an intelligently designed mobile eatery upcycled from an old delivery van. The whole fabrication process was done in Manila and materials used are sourced locally, minimizing our total carbon footprint.

Energy

LEDs and energy efficient lighting are used to limit our total energy consumption.

Packaging

We encourage customers to return our packaging, which we send to a recycling center, to reduce waste going to landfills.

Cutlery

The cutlery we provide is made from cornstarch and biodegrades within 90 days, again, to minimize waste going to landfills.

Footprint

We utilize a small footprint by maximizing the available space within a 12 feet by 6.5 feet delivery truck.”

Their packaging comes in a cool, visible-pleasing little origami design that is made from 1 piece of biodegradable cardboard (no plastic / plastic was used in its creation!). Even cooler is its “loyalty system” where customers receive a stamp for every time they return the packaging to the foodtruck and they get a free meal when they reach 10 stamps. According to Guacatruck, they want to ensure that the used materials are sent to the proper channels for recycling, and who knows better than themselves? I love the whole concept of this sustainable food truck and props to Guactruck especially for taking so many steps towards sustainability.

Taken from http://www.guactruck.com/design.html