Moms Anshu Ahuja and Renee Williams run a tiffin carrier ‘Dabba Drop’ offering home-cooked foods to hundreds in London.
Rising up in Mumbai, meals was once a large a part of Anshu Ahuja’s existence. One in all her passions was once to recreate a meal that she would have at a cafe.
During the last few years, the London-based former TV manufacturer spotted that folks began ordering in a large number of meals, which resulted in a large number of plastic waste. She discovered the packaging wasteful, greasy, and unrecyclable.
A quest to discover a higher solution to order resulted in her beginning Dabba Drop together with her neighbour and fellow mother, Renee Williams, in 2018.
Their undertaking is an eco-friendly supply industry impressed by way of Mumbai’s well-known Dabbawalas, serving home-cooked Indian and South Asian foods in dabbas (tiffins) to Londoners.
Ranging from Anshu’s space, they slowly moved right into a kitchen. Having grown thru phrase of mouth, their undertaking went from having 150 subscribers in November 2018 to round 1,500 now.
Because the type works on a subscription foundation, the duo is aware of precisely how a lot meals to arrange and cook dinner, thus making sure 0 wastage. The dabbas are then delivered on bicycles, e-bikes or different emission-free automobiles.
Thus far, they declare to have stored 2,03,370 plastic boxes and averted 2,500 kg of meals waste thru their undertaking.
Edited by way of Pranita Bhat.