Environmental Commitment

We're going green, and taking you with us!

GrubHub.com now offsets carbon emissions from every order placed through the site.
We have always felt uncomfortable with the carbon footprint that our service promotes and we're finally in a position to do something about it, and offsetting our delivery's carbon emissions is the first step.

From now until forever, GrubHub.com will calculate all carbon emissions that result from orders placed over our website and we'll then purchase carbon credits to offset the damage caused by these greenhouse gases. We're also making it incredibly easy to decline extra disposables like forks, napkins, straws etc to cut down on waste.


Here's the information behind it…
Basically, we take the average delivery distance, multiplied by the average miles/gallon of the typical delivery car, multiplied by the number of deliveries we place per month and then buy enough credits to offset that amount.

Here's an example, assuming:

3 miles per delivery
60,000 deliveries per month
17 miles per gallon and 8.55kg of CO2 per gallon of gas
[(3 x 60,000) / 17] x 8.55 = 90,530 kg of CO2 emissions per month

Sorry, math is painful, yet necessary when saving the earth. For this example, we would need to purchase 91 tons worth of carbon offsets to neutralize the environmental impact of the food deliveries placed through GrubHub.com for just one month. Trading carbon credits isn't something the average joe can tackle, that's why we're aggregating the credits and taking care of it ourselves.

We've been working with Carbon Solutions Group, they "have master agreements in place with some of the largest participants in the carbon offset market today," and they put this program together for us, everybody here was really impressed.

So that's it, we will be updating this page with our monthly offsets so everyone can track how well we're doing. Check back often and order twice as much now that your conscience is clear.