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Four Steps to Manage Restaurant Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

But costs aren't the only problem here; more waste means more hauling fees, landfill fees, increased equipment costs, and more. Whichever your specific goals are, they will fall under one of the following categories: reduce waste production, reuse and recycle. Reuse and Recycle. now recycle their waste.

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How can specialty coffee push for a circular economy model?

Perfect Daily Grind

This ranges from using more sustainable processing methods on farms to using recyclable and compostable packaging. The practice of reusing and recycling materials has been implemented for centuries by many communities around the world. The company powers all of its equipment – including the roaster – using solar energy.

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10 Tips for Promoting Sustainability in the Food Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

We can tap into innovation to solve food sustainability challenges. Adopt Restaurant Innovations. Building on the concepts of a circular food economy, talk centers around recycling and how to return packaging to suppliers. New innovations in takeout packing are helping manage the waste. The opportunities are endless.

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Why Restaurants Are Switching to Intelligent Packaging

Modern Restaurant Management

Cross-contamination at a restaurant refers to the transmission of germs or other hazardous microorganisms from food, equipment, or humans to food. Intelligent packaging in restaurant setting aims at not only reducing the amount of packaging waste but also promote recycling of compostable and reusable packaging.

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Restaurant Sustainability is About Success, Not Just Recycling.

Ken Burgin

Now more than ever, with soaring supply prices, staff shortages and crazy weather, sustainability makes sense across all business areas – it’s much more than recycled packaging and local vegetables. The post Restaurant Sustainability is About Success, Not Just Recycling. Are you worried about power costs?

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The Connection Between Used Cooking Oil and Climate Change

Modern Restaurant Management

Recycling your restaurant’s used cooking oil isn’t just a way to address your waste problems – it can help fight climate change. Industry Innovation As world energy sources decline, demand is skyrocketing for renewable fuels. By recycling used cooking oil, we’re making the planet and kitchen safer.

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An Environmentally Friendly Strategy to Reduce Restaurant Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

percent of the leftover food is recycled, 1.4 Restaurant waste treatment now offers various innovative solutions, which every restaurant can adopt without too much effort. 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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