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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

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As part of creating that good environment, she’s taken multiple steps to cut Rifrullo’s carbon footprint, including composting all food scraps, one of the most important steps restaurants can take to combat climate change. Food waste from all sources is responsible for eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the U.S.

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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

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According to the food waste hierarchy pyramid, source reduction is the ‘best case scenario’ when it comes to food waste. Donation, composting, and organic recycling are all available options to restaurant operators attempting to reduce the amount of food scraps entering their solid waste bins. Composting.

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Adopting Tech Solutions Is the Smartest Decision Restaurants Can Make

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When restaurants use tech tools to enhance food traceability and transparency across the supply chain, it helps ensure better quality from source to shelf. But if they skip handwashing, don’t carefully sanitize equipment and surfaces, or ignore cross-contamination hazards, they could cause an expensive, damaging food breach.

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Four Steps to Manage Restaurant Waste

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But costs aren't the only problem here; more waste means more hauling fees, landfill fees, increased equipment costs, and more. Organic food waste can be recycled for use as renewable energy sources. These wastes can also be transported to landfills to make compost manure and enrich the soil.

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

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“With equipment solutions such as multi-cook ovens, chefs can cook multiple food items, using different techniques and temperatures all at once, allowing them to experiment with new trends, without losing workspace or investing in multiple new tools.” The focus on wellness extends to adaptogenic and vitamin-infused drinks.

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Embracing Hyperlocal Ingredients: Transforming Menus and Communities

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People have become increasingly aware of climate change and the importance of ethical sourcing. What they cannot produce themselves, they source locally. They can easily compost, without having to find partners or programs to take the compost. Buying locally has been trending for quite a few years for several reasons.

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Protecting the Planet and Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

Other approaches to reducing your carbon footprint can be achieved from initiatives such as increasing recycling, reuse of packaging as well as reducing waste that goes to landfill for example by offering compostable or even edible packaging and reducing food waste. Energy production is the most carbon polluting of all industries.