Waste Nothing, Reduce the Excess

A simple guide to excess yardage expenses. Let’s be honest, overloading a dumpster is never a decision an operation chooses to make. Although, it happens. Perhaps, a business has too much trash, and doesn’t know what to do with it. The team may also not realize that the trash contract only includes services for a level full dumpster thus anything extra will be subject to an overage fee. Then again, maybe you’ve simply cleaned out the back room knowing there would be extra costs but wanted to get it all gone before the weekend.
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Ways Your Business Can Love the Planet This Valentine's Day

Roses are red, violets are blue, and your Valentine’s Day can be green, too. Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to show your partner how much you appreciate them, however, like many commercialized holidays, it can become a day in which our planet is neglected. The millions of roses, gifts, greeting cards, and chocolate boxes exchanged on this day have a massive impact on the environment, generating carbon dioxide emissions and creating extensive volumes of waste.
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3 New Year's Sustainability Resolutions Your Restaurant Can Make for 2020

As 2019 comes to a close, many restaurant owners are reflecting on the past decade and making plans for the next. Many individuals want to be more eco-friendly, but struggle with knowing how to actually take steps towards sustainability. If you’ve been wanting to make your restaurant more green, the New Year is the perfect time to make these conscious decisions to benefit the planet - and your profits. Here are a handful of eco-friendly resolutions your restaurant can commit to in the new year.
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The True Cost of Single-Stream Recycling

Having one container to hold all recyclables may seem commonplace today, but it hasn’t always been this way. This system was only introduced in the 1990’s when a handful of Californian communities tried out this simplistic strategy to recycling, and it quickly grew in popularity. Prior to the 1990’s, however, recyclables were sorted before disposal.
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5 Tips to Reduce Corporate Carbon Emissions

Climate change is a hot-button environmental issue facing the world today. The phenomenon is caused by the increasing amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that in turn warm the Earth. Some of the consequences of the increased greenhouse gas emissions are rising atmospheric temperatures and sea levels, in addition to changes in storm patterns. To some, climate change is an inevitable side effect of the industrialized world. To others, it is seen as an imminent threat. No matter the cause or severity of climate change, however, both corporations and consumers can help protect our environment by reducing carbon emissions.
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Franchise Update: New Eco-Friendly Policies From Your Favorite Chains

Across the country, many franchises are incorporating sustainable initiatives into their operations. According to the National Restaurant Association, approximately 50 percent of consumers say that a restaurant's efforts to recycle, donate food or reduce food waste can be factors in where they choose to dine. Companies of all sizes can benefit from prioritizing sustainability.
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Waste Nothing in Waste Collection: Container Sensor Technology

Waste hauling has been a tried and true service for decades. Operating on a daily basis to ensure sanitation for the general public the practice has largely been unchanged. Traditionally, waste haulers drive set routes through cities, picking up containers on a fixed schedule, regardless of how full they are. This practice within the waste industry is ironically wasteful. When haulers pick up containers that aren’t completely full, more trips are required to empty the same amount of trash, exhausting time and fuel resources in the process.
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Debating Digesters and Dehydrators

Approximately 70 million tons of food are wasted in the United States each year. When we waste food, we’re not just wasting the food itself; we’re also wasting all the resources that went into growing and transporting it. As the country’s food waste epidemic continues to grow, both individuals and commercial entities like restaurants and grocery stores are looking inwards to see how they can eliminate some of their own food waste.
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Why are Single-Use Plastics Such a Concern?

Statistics around single-use plastic are staggering. For instance, according to National Geographic, nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold a minute and only nine percent of all plastic globally is recycled. This leads to tens of billions of pounds of plastic waste sent to landfills a year - and billions of pounds of plastic waste ending up in our rivers and oceans, too.
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5 Ways to Improve Your Facility's Waste Management Program in 2019

Whether you run a restaurant, grocery store, retail center, movie theater or any number of other waste-creating businesses, there is high chance that your facility is not operating as efficiently as it could when it comes to waste management. There is room for growth everywhere - as long as your facility is not already certified zero waste, that is.
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How Restaurants Can Improve Plastic Use

The use of plastic can sometimes be unpreventable, as it serves many purposes and plays a vital role in our everyday lives. One of the great advantages of many types of plastic is that it’s designed to last for a very long time: nearly all of the plastic ever created still exists in some form today.
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