It's FREE. When ordering food, you pay €10 for the box and €5 for the cup. You get beautiful and reusable products for a lifetime. But this purchase comes with a particularly cool bonus. You can return the box/cup to any RingKarp restaurant and get a FULL refund, or you can easily exchange it when you buy RingKarp food again.

RingKarp products are valuable and €10/5 motivates enough to bring them back. Once you have spent €10, you'll remember to take the box with you:) This in turn will ensure that the boxes and cups are actually circeling and reused. Our reusable boxes don't end up in the bin or pile up in people's kitchen cupboards. The €10 and €5 allows RingKarp to be part of a pan-European system. Exactly the same boxes circulate at exactly the same price in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, France and Italy.

Yes you can! We've started a pilot project with a Wolt courier company! Enter RingKarp in the Walt search and you will find the restaurants that have joined RingKarp. When ordering through Wolt, the price is the same, €10. You can return the boxes to any RingKarp restaurant.

You can also order food to take home from a restaurant with its own delivery service. In this case, you can also return the previous boxes to the courier. The RingKarp network currently includes the restaurant Brasserie 11, which has its own courier service.

To any of the RingKarp members or to the restaurant's own courier. The network is constantly expanding. Click here to see the restaurants that have joined.

If the box is broken, i.e. a small piece of the lid is missing or the box is just very worn oit, you can return it to the restaurant and ask for a full refund or a new box with a new food.

The deposit will not be returned if the lid is missing or more than half of the lid is broken.

However, always bring the RingKarp reusables back to the restaurant or to our office so that we can recycle the broken product.

Yes, if a restaurant has joined the RingKarp system, it is obliged to accept all 4 different shapes and sizes of boxes. If, by chance, a box is returned that the restaurant does not need, we will simply exchange it for the restaurant.

However, it is not possible to return a box to a café that only uses RingKarp cups and vice versa.

If a restaurant has joined with both boxes and cups you can return all types if RingKarp reusables. On the map of restaurant partner, the food premises are marked accordingly.

Anytime.

There are 2 reasons for this.

Firstly, it is very important for us to minimise the environmental footprint of our activities. We take advantage of the existing capacity of catering facilities to wash reusables. This eliminates the daily transport of boxes from the collection bins to the washing stations, from the washing to the warehouse and back to the restaurants. In addition, there is no need to spend resources on the production and maintenance of returning bins.

Secondly, our system is more convenient for the customer, as returns can be made to any food outlet in the network and there is no need to search for return machines. The more food outlets we have, the more return points we have. This is what we are working on night and day:) We can quickly expand to smaller areas, wherever there is a restaurant that wants to reduce packaging waste.

You don't have to, but you can rinse if you like. If you go to a restaurant with a clean tray, it is up to the restaurant to decide whether to put the food in your tray or to make a tray swap with you to reduce the risk of cross-contamination.

RingKarb boxes are made up of 70% polybutylene terephthalate, or PBT for short, and 30% glass. The boxes do not contain any dangerous phthalates or other plastic softeners. Our boxes are also BPA-free and the colour of the box is completely safe in contact with food. The ring boxes are also suitable for vegans as no animal fat is used in the boxes.

The ring tops are made of tritanium.

The lids of the circular containers are made of polypropylene or PP plastic (code 5).

Hot food can be put in the ring bowl.

The ring boxes and cups have passed all kinds of food safety tests in a recognised laboratory in Switzerland. The tests confirm that the ring boxes are completely safe in contact with food. You can see the Declaration of Conformity and the migration tests of the boxes here .

Ring-boxes can be reused at least 200 times and recycled at the end of their life. They can be used in the microwave and up to 120 degrees in a conventional oven and are dishwasher safe.

The manufacturer promises that RingKarb products can be reused UP TO 200 times, but this number is certainly much higher if used correctly. In Estonia, we have not yet washed any of our boxes 200 times:) We can, however, rely on Swiss data, where the boxes have been in circulation for 4 years - only 1% of the products have been withdrawn from the market for recycling.

In Switzerland, regular tests are carried out on boxes that have been washed more than 200 times to ensure their safety. The tests show that the box may look worn, but it will not leak dangerous substances into our food.

We have considered glass, stainless steel as well as Estonian reed as possible options. Glass is too heavy and easily broken, tempered glass will not be reworked. Stainless steel cannot be used in a microwave and is also very heat conductive (pouring hot soup into it can scorch your fingers, food cools down quickly). Reed canisters and other bio-materials are not durable enough to be recycled.

We are very happy that we found a European manufacturer of boxes! The ring boxes are produced carbon neutral in Switzerland. As they are food-safe plastic, the aim is to recycle them into new boxes and tops. At the moment, this is not yet possible due to legislation and the boxes are currently recycled into plastic pellets for use in other areas.

The RingKarp is suitable for a food outlet that sells takeaway food and is willing to contribute to reducing the number of disposable containers.

RingKarp is suitable for foodservice outlets that sell food and drink to go and want to get rid of disposable packaging.

It is cheaper to participate in the RingKarp system than to use disposable containers. The more food premises use RingKerbp, the more they save money on single-use containers.

When actively used, RingKarp is the most cost-effective solution to reduce your footprint compared to other reuse systems.

Reducing the need to constantly order goods and store them - you don't need to store so many boxes in circulation, and once the system is up and running, the boxes will come to you with your customers.

There is a solution to the situation where the EU is banning the use of single-use plastic products, including bioplastic food boxes.

A new, more environmentally aware customer segment will emerge from new and existing customers. Customers will appreciate that a food establishment is contributing to the environment.

Can provide a food hygiene standard and a very high quality food casing for co-sale to the customer.

The customer can pick up and return the RingKarb at any food outlet that is a member of the RingKarb network. This is convenient for the customer. The customer prefers a food outlet that is a member of the network.

The reputation of the restaurant as a champion of the circular economy and the environment is enhanced.

Click here to see a restaurant owner and chef's experience with the RingKarb system.

Yes, there is a chance. Contact us and we'll talk more.

Probably depends on the box and the system. To be sure that our system is really better than using disposable dishes, we have done a life cycle analysis on our boxes.

It is true that if a wheelie bin is used only a few times, it would have an even larger environmental footprint than a standard single-use plastic bin.

However, ring bins can be reused at least 200 times. With RingKarb, it is possible to replace 200 single-use food boxes with one reusable food box. Over a 4-year period, the average food retailer has the possibility to replace the 192,000 disposable food cartons needed with 1,000 reusable food cartons by recycling them 200 times.

So it is the food retailer's choice to spend 1000 single boxes per week or 1000 circular boxes over 4 years. By opting for the ring-boxes, the grocer will save 21 596.83 kg/CO2 in 4 years.

It's like flying 9 times from Tallinn to Argentina.

At the moment, Estonia does not have the capacity to reprocess biodegradable and compostable food packaging and in 90% of cases, packaging that seems environmentally friendly ends up as mixed waste. Compostable material that is not diverted to composting does not decompose in nature or in landfills. Neither compostable material landfilled nor ordinary food waste will decompose in landfills because there is not enough oxygen. Instead of decomposing, bio-waste, including bio-packaging, emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.

Biodegradable packaging also raises ethical issues. Is it right to use valuable land to 'grow packaging' when half of humanity is starving? Moreover, the raw materials for bio-packaging come largely from intensive farming, which reduces biodiversity, promotes desertification, soil depletion, etc. Since it is not a raw material for food, there is no restriction on the use of pesticides in the cultivation of raw materials. Some bio-based plastics, such as PLA, are made from genetically modified maize (GM) and are harmful to the environment.

An average restaurant uses more than 1,000 disposable food boxes a week. That's 52 000 boxes a year. If you line them up, that's almost 10 km! That's garbage that is not recycled and is produced by ONE restaurant EVERY year. We are literally drowning in plastic waste. If we want to leave a habitable Earth for our children, we have to take very radical steps towards change.

The effects of the European Union's single-use plastics directive will be felt soon, once Estonia has transposed the requirements of the directive into its legislation. Accordingly, a number of single-use plastic products, such as foam food cans, will no longer be allowed on the market. The proposed changes to the law in Estonia provide for a minimum price to be set for single-use packaging, which must not be hidden in the price of food, and for an alternative to single-use packaging to be offered in the form of reusable packaging.