Gousto sustainability score: 49/100
Gousto is a UK recipe-box company, selling meal kits online and delivering them from its own fulfilment centres. Its group accounts are filed by SCA Investments Holdings Limited, incorporated in 2023; its roots go back to 2012 (SCA Investments Limited, 08027386).
More about Gousto
It had 1,175 employees and £342.9 million revenue in 2025.
Founded 2023Head office London, UKStaff ~1,175 (2025 average)Revenue ~£342.9M revenue (52 weeks to Dec 2025)Website ↗
Gousto's footprint was 330,508 tCO2e in 2024, 99.5% of it from its supply chain, mainly the food it buys, and 18% below 2022. It says its targets, including one for farm and land emissions, are SBTi-validated, but its main supply-chain target is per portion, and emissions per portion rose 2% in 2024. Solar panels supply 22% of its electricity and its food waste fell 65% against 2022, but it missed its 2025 target for fully recyclable packaging and publishes no water data.
Gousto scores 49/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Companies can never pay for anything about their own score. Last verified November 2026.
That places Gousto joint 180th of 934 companies scored, and joint 3rd of 24 in E-commerce / Online Retail.
What is Gousto doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (8/10, 7/10). Weakest on Water Impact and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (1/10, 5/10).
Where Gousto lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
- Emissions from its own operations6/10Its own emissions aren't independently verified or tracked over several years.
- Emissions from its supply chain7/10No full value-chain map or supplier engagement programme.
- Whether its emissions are falling6/10No consistent fall over several years across its operations and supply chain.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water1/10No figures for its water use.
- Its climate targets7/10Its targets aren't validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
- How openly it reports6/10No annual impact report, or no pay linked to climate targets.
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How is Gousto's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is Gousto's score based on?
14 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
14% of them were published by Gousto itself; the rest come from independent sources.
12 of 14 sources are independent of the company.
“Total annual electricity usage from the grid in 2025 is 7,139,214 kWh (2024: 7,015,197 kWh).”
“we dropped our total carbon footprint by 2% to 330,508 tCO2e”
“Gousto-backed research by food carbon footprint assessment provider Foodsteps”
“Verified by Dr Isaac Emery of Informed Sustainability Consulting”
“contributes to each Gousto order saving 7kg of carbon dioxide (CO2e) emissions”
“Gousto returned to revenue growth in 2025 as demand for its healthy recipe ranges jumped 144 per cent year on year”
“Founded in 2012, Gousto pioneered the recipe box offering in the UK”
“The principal activity of the Company is the sale of food recipe boxes”
“generates more than”
“Two issues were investigated, both of which were Upheld”
“there is limited independently verified public reporting on actual emissions reductions achieved to date”
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How does Gousto compare with other e-commerce / online retail companies?
Where Gousto sits among e-commerce / online retail peers.
Among the 24 major e-commerce / online retail brands we've scored, Gousto is tied =3rd of 24, with 1 other.
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