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Why You Should Promote a Sustainable Kitchen and Menu

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By sourcing local , organic ingredients, you can support local farmers and reduce the emissions from food transportation – whilst also ensuring your food is free from pesticides and harmful chemicals. Many cities offer schemes where they will collect unspoiled food and deliver it to homeless people.

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How Organic Ingredients Can Enhance Your Restaurant’s Sustainability Initiatives

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They generate large amounts of waste and carbon emissions through food production and transportation. Additionally, sourcing organic products from local providers can help reduce food miles and carbon emissions associated with transportation. Organic farming methods enhance soil health through crop rotation and cover cropping.

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Embracing Hyperlocal Ingredients: Transforming Menus and Communities

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Sustainability and the Local Economy Sustainability is a trend in its own right, but it is also a perfect counterpart to hyperlocal ingredients, which have fewer packaging, storing, and transportation needs. Transportation alone accounts for nearly 20 percent of food-system emissions.

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The Challenges — and Opportunities — of Establishing a More Circular Mushroom Economy

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It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. Stempel currently takes most of the material to a nearby compost facility, but local farms, gardeners, and florists also take a portion. It wasn’t a tough sell. In the U.S.,

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Protecting the Planet and Profits

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When considering the transport element, the method of transport is more significant than distance travelled and avoiding food that has been air-freighted will have the most significant travel-based impact. Beef in particular has a very high carbon footprint relative to other meats, emitting 60 kg of carbon for every kg of beef.

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Emerging from COVID With a More Sustainable Approach

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Disruptions in processing, as well as transportation, have created numerous problems for restaurant owners across the country. It’s also a more environmentally friendly endeavor as it doesn’t rely as much on large forms of transportation. Composting food scraps and leftovers. Using biodegradable packaging.

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The Oddly Stylish Compost Bin That Got Me to Start Composting 

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The Bamboozle compost bin. Composting smells were almost enough to put me off the whole endeavor, but this bin takes care of that (and it looks cute too) Like many an idealistic cook, I have stopped and started attempts to compost my food waste many times. Enter: this adorable compost bin.

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