Sustainability concepts for sales trailers

While companies often try to be climate neutral and integrate environmentally friendly measures into their corporate strategy, there is also a significant increase in sustainable concepts in the street food sector. This not only has an impact on the environment but also makes a positive impression on customers and affects image and customer loyalty.

What measures are there

If you have owned a sales trailer for some time, it is often more difficult to switch to environmentally friendly measures. If you are just about to start your street food business, you can consciously include these aspects in your concept from the beginning. For everyone else, here are some measures you can consider step by step.

• Short transport routes
  • • • • Make sure that the transport routes for your food and materials are short, as this results in fewer CO2 emissions. Try to buy regionally and consciously.
• Avoid waste
  • • • • The new packaging law has already banned many single-use plastic products. As a result, packaging manufacturers have been quick to develop and have already come up with numerous recyclable alternatives. Nevertheless, think about how intensively your goods need to be packaged and avoid unnecessary packaging at other points as well.
• Avoid food waste
  • • • • Try to avoid food waste as much as possible. With proper planning, you buy the exact amount of food and waste as little as possible. You can also offer different portion sizes to cater for guests with small appetites and avoid food waste.
• Vegan or vegetarian dishes
  • • • • Meat products cause significantly more CO2 emissions than alternatives.
• Waste separation
  • • • • To enable recycling, it is important to separate waste properly. Therefore, offer several bins for different materials instead of just one for everything.

Creative concepts

Over the course of time, we have been able to accompany many exciting and, above all, sustainable approaches. Whether vegan food, solar sales trailers or mobile unpacked shops, the ideas were numerous. Due to our individual construction, we can design the sales trailers according to your wishes and are always happy to receive sustainable ideas.

Sustainability concept for unpacked sales trailers

Nina Rositzke takes her mobile unpackaged shop “fairliebt & hüllenlos” to the markets and offers her goods there. And, as the name suggests, without any packaging and therefore no waste. Customers can conveniently fill muesli, pasta, rice and many other products into their own reusable containers. Individual filling containers were installed in the sales trailer for this purpose.

Mobile unpacked shop in Switzerland

Unpacked shops are also a big trend in Switzerland. However, as the shops are mostly in the city centre and unfortunately not yet numerous, Daniela Perroni travels to the markets with her sustainability shop and offers her packaging-free products on site.

Regional protein products

The Pflanzeneiweiß Manufaktur develops foods on a purely vegetable basis. These include mainly pulses, such as soybeans, lentils or chickpeas. With their sales trailer, they want to show that healthy can also taste delicious and what variety the plant-based products offer.

We have been involved in many of these great projects and one thing they all had in common was the positive effect on the customers. Sustainability is a great way to market because your customers will appreciate it and will certainly come back to support you. Whether it’s plant-based products, self-sufficient sales trailers or direct sales of your regional products, there are numerous sustainable approaches for your mobile sales.