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Exploring the compostable coffee capsule market

Perfect Daily Grind

Packaging Online claims that plastic-based capsules can take up to 500 years to break down. One of these alternatives is compostable coffee capsules. Read on to find out what they said. Although they are regarded as more sustainable than standard capsules, they can still take years to break down.

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The Best Disposable Restaurant Supplies for Surging Demand

Cheetah

Disposable restaurant supplies are part of critical inventory used by every restaurant, food-truck and caterer on a daily basis. They include everything from back-of-house supplies like gloves and containers, to customer-facing single use-items like takeout packaging, utensils, napkins, and straws. Restaurant Supplies.

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The Best Disposable Restaurant Supplies for Surging Demand

Cheetah

Disposable restaurant supplies are part of critical inventory used by every restaurant, food-truck and caterer on a daily basis. They include everything from back-of-house supplies like gloves and containers, to customer-facing single use-items like takeout packaging, utensils, napkins, and straws. Restaurant Supplies.

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How Do We Get People to Compost?

EATER

Composting is good for everything and everyone, but food waste continues to be a major problem In the United States, food waste amounts to a whopping 30 to 40 percent of the food supply. New York City, on the other hand, introduced a curbside composting program that failed completely because there was little incentive to participate.

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BRING BACK THE 20 SEAT BISTRO

Culinary Cues

Bigger is less predictable and much more difficult to control and bigger takes cooks and chefs away from what they love to do, what attracted them to the trade in the beginning – to cook from the heart. Instead of thirty-gallon trash cans spread out through the kitchen, there were two much smaller cans, a recycling bin, and tubs for compost.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

Modern Restaurant Management

Food takes up more space in US landfills than anything else. Restaurant operators would be wise to take the following steps to reduce food waste and save money. All employees should practice proper “first in, first out” inventory management. Optimize your supply chain. Recycle and compost.

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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. When carried out effectively, a circular economy minimises environmental impact. To find out more about a circular economy model in coffee, I spoke with Mark Zhou, founder of sustainable packaging company MTPak Coffee.

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