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

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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. It takes a lot of education.

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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. Composting. The Green Restaurant Association claims that close to 95 percent of restaurants’ waste streams could be recycled or composted.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

Educate your employees why it’s essential to reduce food waste and train them on how to accomplish this. Recycle and compost. California has just launched a food waste recycling program, the largest of its kind in the US. Train your staff. Realize that small changes matter.

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An Environmentally Friendly Strategy to Reduce Restaurant Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

percent of the leftover food is recycled, 1.4 Educating the restaurant industry about the circular economy should be a kicking off point for implementing these solutions. The circular economy is a model of production and consumption involving the reuse or recycling of materials to its fullest life cycle. percent, is discarded.

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Four Steps to Manage Restaurant Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Whichever your specific goals are, they will fall under one of the following categories: reduce waste production, reuse and recycle. Educate your staff : This is critical to ensure order in the restaurant and that everyone is aware of the goals you’re working towards. Reuse and Recycle. now recycle their waste.

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Tapping into the Trend of Sustainable Coffee in Dining

The Rail

Educate Your Staff: Train your workers about the benefits of sustainable coffee and allow them to share what they’ve learned with customers. Think recycling and composting food waste. Place direct trades with the farmers to ensure compensation is fair and supportive to locals.

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Organic Waste Recycling for Foodservice: What You Need To Know

Sustainability Beyond the Plate

Until 2016, commercial organic recycling was limited to the dedicated few. If you produce 4 cubic yards* (the size of a standard commercial bin, not the smaller ‘cart’) or more of organic waste per week, you must separate and recycle that waste. Composting can be considered a form of recycling.