Unwanted single-use disposable packaging and leftover food have been an environmental and social issue across the modern world. It has been recorded that people in Hong Kong throw out 266 tones plastic and polyfoam dining wares daily at the landfills in 2020, equivalent to a weight of 120 double-decked buses per week, which an estimated 3.94 billion pieces of single-use food and drink containers were used throughout the year, out of 69% of hot food containers has been recorded being consumed the most amount all types of containers.

In order to combat endlessly rising disposable packaging waste in the food catering service industry caused by growing demand for takeout service, together echoing the initiative single-use plastic tableware ban released by the Government, TODi will provide a reuse system on takeaway tableware for F&B operators and diners in Hong Kong to pilot a closed-loop system with waste minimal packaging that is returnable and reusable.