Many cities are actively discouraging homeowners from using in-sink waste food disposal and urge residents to include food waste such as scraps and leftovers in the same green bin as yard waste. But offering a waste food recycling program to multi-family residential buildings and commercial foodservice operators requires a different approach.
Waste food that ends up in a landfill produces methane — a gas with 84 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. How can foodservice operations minimize the carbon footprint associated with their food scraps and waste food?
Durability, good looks, and hygiene are the reasons why stainless steel is so prevalent in commercial kitchens. If you're buying a biodigester for your kitchen, check the quality of the finish on the exposed surfaces and then look under the hood.
President Donald Trump proclaimed Thursday he was withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, a sweeping step that fulfills a campaign promise while acutely dampening global efforts to curb global warming.
Beginning on January 19, 2016, large-scale commercial food establishments must separate their organic waste.
Assembly Bill No. 1826 requires that businesses that generate eight cubic yards of organic waste per week divert that waste from the landfill.
In November 2010, Austin passed its Universal Recycling Ordinance (URO) to permit the City to achieve zero waste by 2040. In April 2013 the ordinance was extended to include the diversion of waste food by any "food enterprise."
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) recently released a new sustainability report that stresses restaurant initiatives in recycling, composting and food waste reduction.
According to the EPA, food makes for the majority of waste in landfills, accounting for 21% of the total waste.
Power Knot provides environmentally sound products that help reduce costs while reducing your carbon footprint. We sell the LFC biodigester that uses aerobic digestion to convert food waste into water.
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