Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells
Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells
Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells
Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells
Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells
Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells

Trays & To-Go Clamshells

Home Compostable Leak-Resistant Microwave Safe Freezer Safe

The containers that carry a meal out of your kitchen and have to survive the journey, a delivery bag, a car boot, a fifteen minute walk, and a customer opening it expecting the food to look the way it did when it left.

Bagasse clamshells are the direct foam replacement and the highest volume line here: rigid, hot food safe, and the one most operators switch to first. Leak proof containers where sauce is involved and a seal matters more than anything else. Palm leaf compartment trays where the tray itself is seen, MFPP where the meal is heavy and needs reheating, clear PET for cold grab and go, and balsa serving trays for food that goes down the middle of a table rather than into a bag.

Grease-Resistant Grease-Resistant
Compartment Trays Compartment Trays
Leak-Resistant Leak-Resistant
Microwave Safe Microwave Safe
MFPP: No Sag MFPP: No Sag
Home Compostable Home Compostable
No Added PFAS No Added PFAS
Balsa Serving Balsa Serving
Foam Replacement Foam Replacement

Hot, wet, or on display? Start here

Three questions decide this category, and none of them is about material.
If the food is… Choose Why End of life
Hot and dry burgers, fries, wraps

Bagasse clamshell

Rigid, breathable fibre. Replaces foam directly at a similar cost

Home compostable

Hot and wet curries, sauces, stews

Leak-proof bagasse

Sealed rim holds liquid at an angle. The failure everyone remembers is a leak

Home compostable

Heavy and reheated roasts, meal prep

MFPP hinged clamshell

Mineral-filled, no sag under weight. Microwave and dishwasher safe

Recyclable #5, reusable

Cold and on display salads, grab-and-go

Clear PET clamshell

The contents sell it. Shatterproof and crystal clear

Recyclable #1

Portioned for service canteens, schools, thali

Compartment tray

Sections stop food mixing. Bagasse for volume, palm leaf where the tray is seen

Home compostable

Shared at the table grazing, platters

Balsa serving tray

Thin, light and pale-grained, the tray becomes part of the presentation.

Home compostable

Stored and reheated deli, meal prep, leftovers

PP or PLA deli container

Round with a sealing lid. PP washes and comes back for dozens of cycles; PLA is plant-based but needs commercial composting

PP recyclable #5 · PLA industrial only

The leak test

One failure loses a customer permanently, and it is always the same one: a container of curry that arrives having emptied itself into the delivery bag. Nobody blames the driver. They blame the restaurant.

Our leak-proof bagasse range is built with a sealed rim rather than a simple fold, so a lidded container holds liquid at an angle rather than only when level. If sauce is a meaningful part of what leaves your kitchen, order this line as a sample first and tip one over yourself. We would rather you tested it on our sample kit than on a customer's order.

Meal Trays & To-Go Clamshells

BUYING GUIDE

Choosing a container that survives a delivery

Side by side on heat, grease, strength, end of life and cost per unit, so you can decide on evidence rather than on which description sounded best.
Upcycled cane fibre & recycled kraft

The material story

Upcycled cane fibre & recycled kraft

Bagasse is the fibre left after sugarcane juicing, rigid, heat-resistant and compostable. Our kraft boxes are recyclable and food-safe.

Learn about the material →
Good to know

Questions, answered

Will clamshells hold saucy or oily food?

Yes, bagasse is naturally grease-resistant and holds hot, saucy food well without a plastic lining.

Are they microwave safe?

Bagasse containers are microwave-safe. Avoid prolonged oven use unless the page states oven-safe.

Are kraft boxes compostable?

Uncoated kraft is recyclable and compostable; PE-lined kraft is recyclable, not compostable. Each page says which.

Hosting? There is a pack for that.

Everything for 25 to 150 guests in one box, and in our Premium packs the bin liner composts too, so there is nothing to sort afterwards.

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