Farm Boy supermarkets, a sister chain to Sobey’s, has signed a deal with the Friendlier company to recycle takeout containers.
Customers will be able to return the containers to Farm Boy and Friendlier will pick them up and clean them.
Friendlier was founded by two University of Waterloo graduates of chemical engineering and has raised $8 million since it was founded in 2019. It has 70 staff now from Vancouver to Edmonton, Ottawa and Guelph.
It tested its idea with the Farm Boy store in Guelph and the deal now includes stores in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Hamilton and Guelph.There are 50 Farm Boy stores in the chain.
