Calculating Water Savings
In one of my last posts on water conservation I mentioned significant savings several times, but never got a chance to calculate some of those potential savings. So, here are a few of the numbers…in...
View ArticleComprehensive Recycling
Most anyone that reads this blog or has visited www.sustainablefoodservice.com probably already recycles, or at least wishes they had the ability to recycle in their area. Recycling was one of the...
View Article13 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
Almost everything can be recycled. It is just a matter of whether there is a market for that recycled material, and if someone is collecting it. Outside of curbside recycling of glass, cardboard, metal...
View ArticleFood Waste Calculator
The EPA recently released a new food cost calculator that estimates the financial savings of source reduction, donation, and composting of food, and recycling of yellow grease. The calculator takes...
View ArticleComposting in Restaurants
I recently posted a couple articles about food waste in the news section of sustainablefoodservice.com. One was on the regulation of food waste, and the other about a restaurant group that has...
View ArticleReusable Takeout
A Calgary man named K.B. Lee recently launched an interesting website called TakeOutWithout.com. The site is creating a campaign to encourage diners and restaurants alike to reduce the amount of...
View ArticleTen Low- or No-Cost Resource Efficiencies
1. Start-up, Shutdown Schedules Not everything needs to be turned on right away when the first cook arrives. Equipment start-up schedules similar to just-in-time ordering saves energy with no...
View Articlefoodwaste = money waste
I just came across this cool video produced by a Monaghan County Council in Ireland that equates food waste to throwing away money. I’ve never seen it more succinctly put.
View ArticleFood Waste Stats
Our friends at LeanPath just published a new infographic on the problem of food waste. Check it out on their new site foodwastestats.com
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