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The Power of Sustainability in Restaurants: Tips for Going Green
Restaurant Sustainability Practices How much does your food business impact the environment? The topic of climate change and sustainability is a hot topic for business owners and individuals alike. Every day, we make decisions that impact our planet and affect future generations. As a restaurant owner, you can make a difference by implementing changes that reduce food waste, compost scraps, ...
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Hilton Hotel Athens - Case study
BACKGROUND The prestigious Hilton Hotel located in the chic Kolonaki district of Athens, is a 508 bedroom site with conferencing, spa and roof top bars. Boasting magnificent views of the Acropolis and Mount Lycabettus the site also offers unique catering to match, with fresh Agean fish served at the Milos restaurant, roof top BBQ’s from the Galaxy Bar for scenic sunset eating, to ...
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Exclusive hotels pennyhill park - Case study
Background The Exclusive Group of Hotels and Venues Head Office Pennyhill Park Hotel and Spa, can be found within 123 acres of magnificent Surrey parkland. An elegant country house coupled with the best UK spa complex and Double Michelin star dining, make it one of the regions most sought after destinations for an afternoon tea, a relaxing break, fine dining or even a business conference. ...
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Tidy Planet hits the BBC with inspiring food waste project in France
You may or may not have seen that we were recently featured in a BBC News video for the work we’re carrying out with Paris-based social enterprise – and one of our French distributors – Les Alchimistes… Earlier in the year, our director James Tyler jetted off to Paris to meet with BBC journalist Dougal Shaw and the Les Alchimistes team, to take part in a video that ...
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Compost Leachate Pond Bioremediation Case Study - Composting Facility, Northern California
Our client runs a composting facility that receives green waste, food waste and other compostable material from residential and commercial sources, to create rich, black compost Challenge As part of the facility, the compost leachate pond has repeatedly experienced problems with the incoming influent high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) levels, foul odors and ...
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Some Key Challenges of Food Wastage Within the Hospitality Sector and Solution
We’re taught the value of not wasting food when we’re young. We’ve been taught that the food on our plates must be consumed in its whole, and that portion size is essential to preventing food waste. The world continues to see enormous amounts of food wasted even though we have been taught these skills from a young age According to The Hindu Business Line, a whopping ...
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Green hotel products
The green Hospitality has come a long way from the normal thatched-roof bungalows and on-staff naturalists. All the hotels new or old has started taking environmental measures in account. In accordance with it few hotels have decorated few rooms using environmentally safe paints and also have used furniture made of salvaged forest-fire wood.But the main question which most of hotelier or ...
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An evaluation of breeding conditions of flies and optimum food waste rations for effective composting in Municipal Solid Waste composting site in Southern Sri Lanka
Composting is effective way of solving problems associated with solid waste management. Some of the main issues associated with municipal solid waste composting are the increase of food waste percentage and development of breeding conditions favourable for various fly species causing public health issues. Experimental composting piles were constructed by changing food waste composition (0%, 25%, ...
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Cardiff airport - Case study
Background Cardiff Airport, is a much more scenic corner of the triangular airport “hub”, joint with Birmingham and Heathrow being improved and expanded to help ease the burdens on the South East of England’s struggling air infrastructure, as demand for flights increases. The airport which was recently purchased by the Welsh Assembly will be a key player in the years to come ...
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Municipalities Moving Toward Anaerobic Digestion
As organic materials make up a greater and greater proportion of municipal waste streams, creative alternatives such as anaerobic digestion are needed. Although local governments often hesitate to experiment with technologies on the taxpayers’ dime, several cities are venturing forward into using anaerobic digestion for diverting waste and producing energy. Many of these efforts are the ...
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Kazakhstan Oilfield Diverts 255 Tonnes of Food Waste from Landfill Through Composting
Macclesfield-based Tidy Planet has shipped four of its A900 Rocket Composters and a bespoke Dehydra Dewatering system to an oilfield in Kazakhstan, to compost the site’s 255 annual tonnes of food waste. Situated in Western Kazakhstan in the Burlin region, the remote 50km² facility is a major producer of oil and gas and has 4,000 employees working on the premises at any one time. Its ...
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Closed-loop food waste management is a growing trend in hospitality
Like single-use plastic, food waste is one of the most widely debated topics within the hospitality and food service sector (HaFS), and an increasing number of hotels and restaurants are looking for ways to close the loop on their food waste management. Our composting expert Huw Crampton recently shared his thoughts with FoodChain about how establishments can achieve this and the associated ...
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Monster 3-shred grinders helps reclaim food bank waste - Case Study
Multiple entities partner to divert food waste from landfills Problem: Food Composting system must breakdown mixed packaged waste for processing Solution: Low Speed, High Torque JWC 3-SHRED Grinder The statistics surrounding food waste in the United States can only be described as staggering. More than 30 percent of the food produced for human consumption in the United States, valued at ...
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Scottish prison service Food waste dewatering Refurb’ & Retrofit - Case study
Background The Scottish Prison Service as the English and Welsh Prison Service have been at the forefront of recycling for longer than many would know or perhaps expect. Visit the sites and the waste management compounds are stacked with baled cardboard, neatly wrapped bales of shredded confidential paper, baled linen and clothes, pallet boxes full of WEEE and fluorescent tubes and diligently ...
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How to collect and recycle residential waste?
Residential waste is always the most diverse type of waste. Families produce different wastes due to the variety of consumption. These wastes are plastic, fabric, wood, construction, leather, mix, food, electronics and metals. Home furniture turns into wood waste after several years of use and damage. Leather and fabrics, which are commonly used as clothing and decorative items in the home, ...
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Mater-bi starch-based materials : present situation and future perspectives
The environmental impact related to the emissions of gases with green-house effect and the management of solid waste disposal with regard to the decreasing availability of landfills, the litter problem and the pollution of the marine environment became very urgent in the last decade. An obliged approach to solve the problem is: the valorisation of waste as a resource through its separation into ...
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The Food Waste Landscape During and Post-Covid-19
The current Coronavirus pandemic continues to throw a raft of challenges – and opportunities – at businesses, both in and out of the environmental sector. From adapting their provision to support the healthcare system – by setting up 3D-printing facilities – to completely pivoting and taking more of their services online, companies in waste, hospitality, education, retail ...
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Biodegradable vs. Compostable: What’s the Difference?
Whether you’re a business looking to offer more environmentally-friendly packaging—or a consumer looking for an alternative to plastic products—the green landscape can be a difficult one to navigate. Vague and misleading claims are common in this space—and these various forms of “greenwashing” make it incredibly difficult to identify optimal product ...
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What facility managers can do to improve sustainability in the workplace
As a facility manager, you play a critical role in improving the sustainability of your company's operations. Sustainable practices can help you: reduce your company's environmental impact,save money,and support employee health and well-being. In this article, we'll explore what you can do to improve sustainability and the benefits of doing so. What is sustainable facility management? Sustainable ...
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Navan Recycling Centre install - Case Study
Meath County Council has a number of recycling centres across the county. A lot of their customers use the centre as a one stop shop for all their waste and recycling. Their customers tend to be highly environmentally conscious and over the years numerous requests were received by Meath County Council to provide a more sustainable food waste solution. Harp Renewables provided Navan Recycling ...
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