Sustainable Food and Drink

UCL has established a Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy and Strategy to ensure that UCL meets high environmental and socially responsible standards for the food offered through its catering partners, and to encourage healthy and sustainable food production and consumption.

Food and drink commitments

Avoid disposable as standard for all food and events (hospitality)
50% or more of our food offers provided are vegetarian or vegan
Fairtrade-certified tea, coffee, bananas, chocolate (confectionary, cocoa powder, drinking chocolate) and sugar are standard
Provide carbon labels in-house food provided to allow consumers to make informed choices

Read our UCL Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy

What UCL is doing

Awarded 3 (out of 3) stars Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) Food Made Good award
Jointly awarded the 1-star Fairtrade University and College Award, following a student-led audit in 2022
Successful adoption of CLUBZERO coffee cup deposit scheme
Vegetarian and vegan default hospitality choices #PoweredbyPlants
Established the UCL Sustainable Food Working group - a new collaborative pan-UCL group of representatives from UCL caterers, Sustainable UCL, Union and Student Societies, to share best practice.