2025 Recycling Sustainability 
Modern Restaurant Management
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.
Modern Restaurant Management
JUNE 13, 2022
Starbucks recently announced that it aims to have every customer either use their own personal mug or cup or borrow a reusable cup from their local Starbucks — by 2025. This change will directly contribute to the coffee chain’s 2030 sustainability goals to conserve water usage by 50 percent and achieve carbon neutral green coffee.
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Modern Restaurant Management
MARCH 11, 2025
We’ve found ways to use less plastic and recycle more. But it also fast-tracked the adoption of technology and AI, setting small businesses up for smarter, more sustainable growth moving forward. Before rolling out new tech, you should test and pilot new features prior to making any long-term or significant commitments.
EATER
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
or meet some other climate-induced apocalyptic death, plans to remove 90 percent of virgin fossil fuel-based plastic from its iconic Happy Meal toys — by 2025! You can expect future Happy Meals to come with games made from paper or other materials more sustainable than plastic. Think puzzles and little figurines built from cardboard.
Modern Restaurant Management
OCTOBER 22, 2019
If catering companies want to keep up with consumer trends, they must start focussing on sustainably and how their products can support social change. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and World Economic Forum, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2025. Cheap and easy solutions are no longer enough.
Goliath Consulting
MARCH 14, 2020
On the other hand, restaurants with innovative, sustainable packaging can increase traffic among consumers. Sustainability. A Nielsen study reported that consumers are increasingly willing to pay more for sustainable brands (10). This probably explains the trend of previously-recycled and reusable packaging. Conclusion.
EATER
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Vermont established a universal recycling law that requires separation and diversion of food scraps from the waste stream. It can be done in a really classy way, if you actually frame it as a sustainable discount [and] you put signage indicating this is for the benefit of waste reduction,” he says.
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