It’s more than your meal
Understanding our impact.
We established the Enviro-mental programme in the early 2000s as a commitment to keep the environment in mind as we grew and to continuously find ways to lessen any environmental harm.
0.013TCO2e
Total emissions saved*
We’re working to keep our food and packaging waste out of our landfills.
26.44T
Tonnes of food & packaging waste diverted*
*Since 2022. Data provided from Green Gorilla and includes waste from BurgerFuel Takapuna and the BurgerFuel Head Office in Auckland.
Packaging
We recognise the environmental impact of single-use packaging and the importance of minimising its harm at the end of use. We’re working with suppliers to ensure our packaging is circular and sustainable. Most of our high-volume packaging (burger ZippyBox, chip cups, and side boxes) is made from aqueous-coated kraft board and is PFAS-free. Our takeaway bags are recyclable kraft paper, and our cutlery is made from wood and bamboo.
How to dispose of your BurgerFuel feed
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Taking away or delivered
Food contaminated packaging is not recyclable. Pop all BurgerFuel packaging in the rubbish with your drink bottle caps and till receipt.
BurgerFuel takeaway bags, shake cup carriers, and all glass and plastic bottles, and cans should be put into your recycling.
You can dispose of food waste into your kerbside organics collection, or home compost (with your shake cup!).
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In Store
Pop all leftovers, food packaging (excluding liner of sides box), bottle caps, till receipts & any rubbish that came with you into the rubbish bins provided.
Your glass and plastic bottles, and cans should be recycled, pop these into the recycling bins provided.
Are you dining in at BurgerFuel Ponsonby or Takapuna? Your food waste and all food packaging is compostable! Dispose of these items in the compost bin provided.
Composting your BurgerFuel Shake Cup
How to
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Order your thickshake, and enjoy :)
- 2.
Once finished, tear up your cup to speed up the composting process. The more you break it up, the easier it is for the microorganisms to chew it down (the lid and straw are not currently compostable and should go in the bin).
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Dispose of it in your home compost or worm farm. Over the next 4-8 weeks it will break down alongside your other food waste. A healthy compost needs a good balance of nitrogen, carbon, water and oxygen. Our shake cups are a form of carbon!
tackling food waste
Food waste in our landfill produces powerful greenhouse gases but can become nutrients to help grow more food. Learn more about our other initiatives where we work with suppliers and community organisations to help raise awareness around food waste in NZ.
Wild Heart Burger
Wild Heart, created in collaboration with Citizen Collective, WITHWILD, and the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, is a purpose-driven burger designed to address food waste in New Zealand.
Made with 100% locally sourced, rescued ingredients, it features a Wapiti venison patty, an introduced species which negatively impacts the Fiordland ecosystem, seasoned with Four Horseman black rub, truffle mascarpone, wonky Pukekohe carrots, mesclun salad, rescued Central Otago cherry sauce, and BurgerFuel Aioli.
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Finalist in the 'Communicating for Impact Award' at the Sustainable Business Awards 2022 and 2023!
Upcycling
We transform what would be waste into something useful. Discover how we turn trash into treasure and scrap into swag.
100%
We keep all of our advertising billboards nationwide and upcycle them into bean bags and other useful items.
250
Picked up from our Fairy Springs store each week and used to power a local off-grid business. That’s 18,000 litres of old chippy oil put to good use each year!
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52 Stores
The unique chandelier lighting that hangs in our dining rooms are made of hundreds of old spark plugs.
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200 Staff
When our employees hit their three year anniversary, they get a chic upcycled billboard canvas duffle bag.
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Try our shakes - then tear up the cup for home compost
Our BurgerFuel Thickshakes are made fresh to order and blended with all natural BurgerFuel WHIP, NZ dairy and your choice of one of six life-changing flavours. Also available in oat!
