Americans throw away approximately 25 percent more trash during the holiday season than any other time of year while 10.5 percent of US households remain food insecure. In this blog, we discuss how commercial businesses can minimize their holiday food waste.
Food waste is one of the biggest issues that maritime vessels are still struggling to deal with. We review and compare food pulpers against biodigesters as food waste solutions.
At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26 summit) in Glasgow this past week, there was much emphasis on the need to reduce methane emissions. If your business serves, processes, or distributes food, you could be inadvertently contributing to methane emissions, resulting in your organization having a very high carbon footprint. Here's how to reduce your carbon footprint and impact on the environment.
Here we will outline how some of the several forms of composting works, when this solution works best, and some of the potential drawbacks you may face in composting your food scraps. With a better understanding of how composting works, you can make a more strategic decision as to how best dispose of your food scraps without sending them to the landfill.
A recent TikTok video called out Chik-fil-a for dumping excess chicken nuggets at the end of the day. However, Chik-fil-a isn't the only restaurant chain where food waste is an issue. U.S. restaurants contribute an estimated 22 to 33 billion pounds to the food waste problem every year, a problem with tremendous environmental impacts. Chain restaurants should consider this multi-pronged approach to managing their food waste.
In this article, we'll explain what food waste is and why it's an issue, what to do with unusable food instead of sending it to the landfill, and the business case for taking action to reduce your food waste.
In a recent LinkedIn Live with Enrique Acosta Gonzalez, we discuss why sustainable leaders can attract employees and investors, increase productivity and reduce costs, and improve brand image.
We discuss the differences between zero waste to landfill, waste-to-energy and zero waste and how it impacts corporate sustainability.
Supermarkets and grocery stores face a unique plight in America — nearly 30 percent of food is thrown away before it ever reaches the consumer despite the fact that 10.5 percent of households are food insecure. The best way for retail markets and grocery stores to combat climate change isn't just to procure the food from sustainable sources but includes shifting their focus to preventing food waste.
Power Knot provides environmentally sound products that help reduce costs while reducing your carbon footprint. We manufacture the LFC biodigester that uses aerobic digestion to convert food waste into water.
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