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How can coffee shops reduce single-use cup waste? 

Perfect Daily Grind

As more and more countries implement bans on single-use cups and plastics , we’ve seen the number of biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable alternatives increase. A 2017 report from the UK’s House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee found that only one in 400 single-use cups are properly recycled in the UK.

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How to Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants: 16 Practical Tips

Touch Bistro

Conduct a Food Waste Audit. We hope you brought your appetite to this party, because in 2017, the average restaurant portion size in the U.S. Compost Whenever Possible. Building on the idea of leveraging partnerships to decrease restaurant food waste, if you work with local suppliers, ask if you can provide them with compost.

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The Top 10 U.S. Food Vendors: Do you know everything you should about your restaurant food vendors?

Marketman

They pride themselves on delivering meat that is farm-to-fork, pure and fresh seafood, score cards and third-party audits for field-to-your-cooler produce, and eggs and poultry products that meet stringent specifications. Using organic vendors who repurpose unusable food for composting, animal feed and waste-to-energy initiatives.

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The Top 10 U.S. Food Vendors: Do you know everything you should about your restaurant food vendors?

Marketman

They pride themselves on delivering meat that is farm-to-fork, pure and fresh seafood, score cards and third-party audits for field-to-your-cooler produce, and eggs and poultry products that meet stringent specifications. Using organic vendors who repurpose unusable food for composting, animal feed and waste-to-energy initiatives.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Sandy is a graduate of Walsh College with a Bachelor’s of Accountancy and accomplished the designation of Certified Scrum Master in 2017. She is instrumental in all of the company websites, network security systems, data backups and other technical needs. William (Bill) M. Angott: President and Chief Executive Officer | 25 years.

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Hawai?i’s Mushroom Boom Is Here

EATER

He plucks them from composted wood chips nestled in cardboard boxes, and carefully puts them in a clean new box. Yang smiles as he shows off his heaping compost pile: He says he reclaims three to five tons of organic green waste every few weeks to produce substrate, the woody equivalent of soil, for his mushrooms.

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