Eurostar and sustainability

A recipe for success

We take our food as seriously as we take sustainability. That’s why our menus are packed with high-quality ingredients that are good for you and the planet.

Here’s how we’re contributing to a circular economy through Eurostar Café on our routes to and from London.

• We’ve swapped 1.5 million plastic cups for a compostable plant-based alternative.
• We’ve packaged our sandwiches in plant-based materials.
• Our menus always include vegetarian and vegan options.
• We’re ditching plastic bottles and now only sell water and wine in aluminium cans.
• We’ve swapped plastic cutlery and straws for greener alternatives.
• We work with Fairtrade partners to supply our sugar, hot chocolate and Tony’s Chocolonely bars.
• We knock 50p off the cost of your hot drink when you bring a reusable cup.

Waste not, want not

We don’t want to just reduce waste on our trains — we want to make the most of it. Any unsold food from Eurostar Café is donated to waste-reduction company Olio, who redistribute it to local communities around London.

In the UK, our food waste is taken to a government-recommended anaerobic digestion facility, where it’s processed and used as organic fertiliser on local farmland. Over in France, our food waste is converted into compost at local centres run by Les Alchimistes, and then sold at garden centres, supermarkets and DIY stores across the country.

Planet-friendly plates

On our Standard Premier and Business Premier menus, we wanted to create something both special and sustainable. That’s why we work closely with local farmers, growers and producers, and the changing seasons dictate the ingredients we use. There’s even a buzz around our honey which comes from our own Eurostar bees in Kent.

All this is why we were the first transport provider to receive top marks from the Sustainable Restaurants Association’s Food Made Good Standard, with a Three Star Rating for our Business Premier and Standard Premier menus.

Sustainable success

Eurostar’s UK operations have been certified to ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 50001:2018 since 2017, demonstrating our commitment to continually reducing our environmental impact and energy use across the business. ​

Eco-friendly foods

We take our food as seriously as we take sustainability. That’s why our menus are packed with high-quality ingredients that are good for you and the planet.

We always do our best to ensure our food is locally-sourced and organic, and our packaging is environmentally-friendly. Glass, cardboard, PET plastic and aluminium items are recycled and sorted, while the organic waste from our Premium menu is collected and sent to Les Alchimistes composting centres in France.

Here’s how we’re contributing to a circular economy through Eurostar Café on our routes between Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands:

• Over half our Eurostar Café products are organic.
• Only recyclable paper plates, cups, and wooden cutlery are used.
• ​100% of our products come from the EU, with 90% coming from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
• We always offer vegetarian options.

We’re proud that our sustainability efforts have been recognised. Our Premium menu has been awarded the Sustainable Restaurants Association’s Food Made Good Standard with a Two Star Rating.

Sustainable success

In 2021, sustainability rating platform EcoVadis awarded us a gold medal for our low environmental impact, procurement practices, and our high human rights standards and ethics.