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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

EATER

As part of creating that good environment, she’s taken multiple steps to cut Rifrullo’s carbon footprint, including composting all food scraps, one of the most important steps restaurants can take to combat climate change. For takeout, she uses compostable containers and wooden silverware. I struggle with it. But I have to remember.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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Experts largely agree that if our agricultural systems are going to be sustainable for the environment, they have to get local , and stay small. Crave Fishbar is also a B Corp-certified restaurant, recognized for its social impact along with several other criteria, including environmental impact.

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How Organic Ingredients Can Enhance Your Restaurant’s Sustainability Initiatives

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These are ingredients produced under strict agricultural standards. Support for Local Farmers By sourcing organic ingredients from local farmers, restaurants can contribute to the growth of small-scale agricultural operations. What Makes Ingredients Organic? The first step toward sustainability is choosing organic ingredients.

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July/August 2020 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

California Requires Quick Service Restaurants to Make Composting Bins Available : On July 1, a California law, requiring restaurants, malls and other businesses to make composting and recycling bins accessible to customers officially went into effect. Administrative Developments. FDA Resumes Domestic Inspections : On July 10, the U.S.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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Eighteen former workers at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture allege dysfunction in the livestock program at America’s most famous regenerative farm “This isn’t a joke,” police told the Daily Voice , a hyperlocal news site in Westchester County, New York, on August 30, 2018. “We Pseudonyms are denoted with asterisks.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Meanwhile, new ingredient growing regions, such as those in Africa and India, and agricultural innovations, including floating farms, will emerge to tackle global food insecurity. We find that in nearly three-quarters of countries in the index, less than 10 percent of agricultural land is equipped for irrigation. Global Food Security.

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Restaurant Experts Talk Sustainability Tips and Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

This list can go on and on for waste, however, when waste is FINALLY just waste, compost is the answer or if the trimmings are safe, I'll give them to my sous chef, who then feeds them to her chickens. billion and agricultural soil will be depleted heavily across the world. Using creative plating opportunities when arisen.