At Yum&Bass we take our sustainability very seriously. We are fed up of seeing our World being treated like one big rubbish dump, and taken advantage of by a greedy few at the detriment to everybody else. Therefore we do everything we can to minimise our waste and ecological impact at every stage of our supply chain.

Sustainability can be hard to measure, but we aspire to improve every day, and are always looking at new ways to reduce our impact further still. Below we have outlined some of the ways we are keeping Yum&Bass as eco-friendly as possible:

Food 

Our current fruit and veg supplier (and aspiration), Infinity Foods Wholesale is one of the leading distributors of high quality, organic, biodynamic, fairtrade and natural products in the UK. Not only a Co-Op but they aim to reduce impact (as we do) every step of the way, so we know their packaging and logistics to get from ground to plate is spot on. More information can be found at https://www.infinityfoodswholesale.coop/about_us/our_beliefs/

All eggs used are free range and organic

At Yum and Bass we encourage a plant based diet and the majority of our produce is, however we do occasionally offer a meat or dairy based food. We go to great lengths to buy produce that is sustainably and ethically sourced. Currently we get our meat from Northfield Farm Butchers who specialise in rare-breed free range animals.

All our teas and coffees are fair-trade and ethically sourced (milk is also organic, we also offer oat and soya milk too) At the moment we are loving the Tradecraft Instant Coffee, which are produced by CIPAC in Guatemala. 

All of our single-use packaging, napkins and cutlery is 100% compostable sourced from sustainable wood programs. When we are trading on permanent sites, we encourage our repeat customers to bring their own tupperwear containers so they don't have to use our packaging.

During 2019 we are aiming to completely eradicate our use of plastics

Helping Humans:

We already try to minimise our wasted food by selling out every day (!), but occasionally we have left over produce after a days trading. Currently we are operating in an area where there is a large amount of homeless and vulnerable people, and we distribute the food amongst anyone who is around at the end of the day. However we are looking to legitimise our cause, and as our business grows so will leftovers, so we are currently in talks with the food charity, Fareshare. Early talks have been promising, but at the moment the majority of our food wastage is prepared food which cannot be accepted, however any unused veg does go to them, and as mentioned before as our business grows, so will the leftovers.

We know how hard it is to survive in an expensive city such as London, so anyone working on the Yum&Bass stall we pay a minimum £10 an hour and if we hit certain sales targets for the day we increase it to £11.50.