Sustainable Packaging Solutions
Grab leverages our technology, scale and partnerships to drive towards Zero Packaging Waste in Nature, our 2040 target.
Grab’s Impact in 2025
10,142
tonnes of single-use packaging waste reduced, reused or recycled
Advancing Sustainable Packaging Solutions
Zero Packaging Waste in Nature by 2040
Our approach is anchored on four pillars: Reduce, Replace, Reuse and Recycle, that aims to support both environmental stewardship and long-term community resilience.
Through pilots and initiatives across markets, we continue to test, learn and refine our approaches, with the aim of identifying scalable solutions that can create shared value for merchant-partners, consumers and the environment over the long term.
Reduce
Grab’s default ‘Cutlery Opt Out’ feature has been implemented across all markets since 2019, significantly reducing unnecessary single-use plastic waste.
In 2025,
- 1.1 billion cutlery sets were prevented, avoiding an estimated 10,000 tonnes of plastic waste.
- Single-use plastic shopping bags were also fully phased out across all 58 Jaya Grocer outlets in Malaysia for both in-store purchases and deliveries.
Replace
Grab developed a Sustainable Packaging Playbook with World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia and Bestari Sustainability to educate and support MSME merchants in transitioning towards compostable or recyclable alternatives from environmentally harmful packaging, such as polystyrene foam.
Reuse
Jaya Grocer partners with brands like Farm Fresh and Bio-Home to place milk and home cleaning refill stations in its outlets. More than 270,000 litres of milk were refilled and over 3,000 litres of eco dishwashing liquid and detergents were dispensed in 2025, avoiding an estimated 9.6 tonnes of single-use packaging.
Recycle
Grab partnered with KLEAN, F&N, Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology & Innovation (MRANTI) and Asasrama to deploy 20 AI-driven Reverse Vending Machines (RVMs) in Malaysia. These RVMs accept food packaging waste, on top of the usual PET bottles and cans.
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