Group items tagged

This article is about food waste in restaurants. Restaurants and other foodservices are one of the most recognizable areas of food waste in America.

We always think about how much food we waste at home, but how much is wasted in restaurants? Restaurants waste more than households do, its shocking.

This article talks about the how much restaurants waste. It talks about how they don't realize how much food is being thrown away. One restaurant owner took away the garage can to teach the employees about not wasting food. They saved a lot of food because every time they have to throw something away they have to ask. It also talks about the odor that comes off of dumpsters. It is then take to landfills where the garbage breaks down into methane to damage peoples health. Its not only the producers who are wasting its also the consumers.

A major problem we have today is that food waste is a low priority for restaurants and nobody is doing anything about it.

This article explains that restaurants find food waste a low priority. This happens because as a restraunt you always have to be prepared if its slow or busy. If its busy then great you wont have any food to be thrown out but if its slow you have to throw away that days production.

This article is about how to reduce food waste in restaurants. What can the restaurants do to help reduce their food waste?

McDonalds is opening up a vegetarian McDonalds due to the fact that these people in India can not eat meat because of their religion.  This is the first of it's kind in the franchise. The store will serve the vegetarian items currently sold in indian restaurants and the chain will likely develop some new items as well.

McDonald's is opening their first ever vegetarian restaurant in India this year. Because of religious reasons, none of the McDonald's serve beef in India. They are adding a new spin to this idea and are offering completely meat free restaurants. In the next 2 years they are hoping to have more than 200 in India.

This blog post/ article talk specifically about the food waste that occurs in restaurants.

Smart ideas on how to not waste food at restaurants such as offering a 30% DISCOUNT.

Remember when your mom told you to eat all you food? This restaurant goes by what mom says. If you finish you food you get a discount. On the other hand if you don't you get a fee and can't come back.

"Nearly 80% of U.S. diners surveyed express concern about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants, cafeterias and other away-from-home venues." Its really amazing how much food is produce in restaurants its just easy to see why so much food is waste it.

This is a very interesting article. It talks about a restaurant in Australia that requires you to eat all of your food otherwise you are given a fine and told not to return. This is their part in helping reduce food waste with an interesting spin on it.

This article gives you a good description of what composting is. It talks about how some restaurants put too much food on ones plate and how composting helps the food not go to waste.

There are several companies who have dedicated themselves to helping resteraunts reduce the amount of food they waste each day. The project began in 1996 and is still being used today. This article shows the true benefits of doing more than simply just letting the food go to waste. We all have the power to make a difference it our choice to really do something with that power or not.

The amounts of fruit,vegetables,orchards, and food in general and how researchers find distrubing to see all this food go to waste in california. The belief that the problemsof food waste start in the field of the farmers growing it and why it is the problem due to the retailers hard to pass requirements.

Grocery stores and restaurants still wasting food that they know to be unsafe. It is said in this article that Safeway doesn't donate food items that are not fit for consumption. In this case it can be a health problem to the consummer of these food.

State students have studied that with the yearly food waste, it can fill the Staples Center in Los Angeles bout 35 times. How much is that? It's more than 6 million tons. There is a hunger relief program that most grocery stores donate to.

This article talks about how Americans waste so much food from the grocery stores to restaurants and they still think of something else that is going to hurt their pockets.

This article talks about how food waste has increased over the years. It gives some suggestions on what we can do to prevent food waste. It also mentions how fresh products make most of household waste and how restaurants contribute to the food waste. 

In this article there is a list with food items that are accepted to be recycle and another list for items which are not accepted. It also talks about the food waste composting program and how it is now done in restaurants and coffee shops. It also gives suggestions to prevent food odor. 

Fast food restaurants are known to be the number one cause of litter. It is a problem when it comes to recycling because of the styrofoam.

This article talks about how America is on board with recycling, but its priorities have mostly been cardboard and plastic. It talks about how we don't pay attention to one of the most important problems food waste. NATH Sustainability Solutions is an involved organization that works with schools and restaurants and they bring awareness to the people about food waste.

An estimated forty-five to fifty percent of food is discarded each year by Americans.That makes it an economic problem for everyone. In a country known as the "throw away" society we are destroying the planet with methane, mountains of food waste that could of been eaten, and wasting money that could of been saved.

This article covers the idea of warehouses and how they contribute to the idea of food waste. They also give again, They general run down about food waste and again some ideas anyone can do in their homes everyday to help prevent the issue.

In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.

In this page the author from our book, American Wasteland, its mentioned and some statistics from our book. Its pretty similar to the things that we are studying and seen before. The waste of food on restaurants, supermarkets, etc.

Food recovery is retrieving edible food that would go to waste and giving it to those in need. The food that is picked up is donated by supermarkets, restaurants and farms. Things like day old bread and things that are past the "sell by" dates but still in great shape are donated.

Portable pulverizer gives food waste the thrashing of a lifetime: article on a Nevada based business that has introduced a new product to help restaurants, grocery stores and farmers with reduction of their waste. the Machine " The machine "shreds, rips, bruises and pulverizes" food waste, allowing more of it to fit within a receptacle, and preparing it for easy composting

This article explains the importance of sustainable fisheries and how exspensive it is to become certified as a sustainable fishery. The Author is aiming towards other fish packaging companies, to encourage them to help the fishery companies they rely on for fish to become sustainable.