An Environmentally Friendly Strategy to Reduce Restaurant Costs

Food waste generated by restaurants has long been an expensive and environmentally harmful problem. Now, there are solutions to change this that actually turn the waste into a resource that doesn't just benefit the environment, but the restaurants themselves. There is no longer an answer as to what's stopping these restaurants from adopting organic waste management solutions. Now the question is, what are these solutions and how can restaurants finally put them into practice?

Currently, the restaurant industry is generating a lot of waste, with each restaurant averaging at between 25,000 to 75,000 pounds of waste production per year. Tremendous amounts of food are being thrown away, accumulating to an astronomical amount of polluting waste, which mostly remains untreated and creates colossal environmental damage. Food production and consumption currently constitute over 30 percent of international greenhouse gas emissions, and the world food system’s ecological…