Eco-Eating – Where nothing on your plate goes to waste.

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There are a growing number of restaurants that truly care about their impact on the environment.

By recycling as much as their waste as possible from glass to packaging and most importantly their food waste, these restaurants are limiting their dependence on landfill and showing how it should and can be done with all things waste related.

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It’s these restaurants that really deserve our support and the recognition for treating sustainability as more than just a PR exercise, so that’s why we set up eco-eating, to showcase their impeccable green credentials and give you the eco-eating diner, the option to choose an environmentally friendly restaurant to eat at.
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Did you know? That by recycling food waste via the technology of Anaerobic Digestion and not disposing of it in resource depleting landfill, eco-eating restaurants are saving almost tonne per tonne of harmful CO2 gas being emitted into the atmosphere.

So to find an accredited eco-eating restaurant near you search our members list

recycle food waste It’s never been more topical to talk about all things green related and new research released to coincide with the launch of the first national food waste recycling service to anaerobic digestion (AD) reveals that more than three quarters of the British public care as much about what happens to food waste as to where ingredients come from when they eat out.

This concern is justified: of the18 million tonnes of food waste heading for the UK’s landfill mountain, this year some three million tonnes are produced by catering services and restaurants (source, WRAP).

According to the report, ‘Eco eating: consumer attitudes to commercial food waste’, consumers believe that food waste recycling is far more effective at home than in a commercial setting. The majority of respondents, 94%, said they try not to waste food at home. But no doubt fuelled by programmes like the Gordon Ramsay’s ‘F Word’, the British public also have strong views about what happens behind the kitchen doors of a restaurant:

85% of people care about what goes on behind the scenes in restaurants.
69% say they care about food waste.
Restaurants offering exceptional environmental, as well as food credentials would encourage 44% of diners to pay more when they eat out.

The research commissioned by waste management company Cawleys has received a positive response from the hospitality sector.

David Clarke, Chairman of the British Hospitality Association Sustainability Committee and CEO of Best Western Hotels said:

“The BHA, as the national trade association for the hospitality industry, welcomes the findings of this report..... there is quite rightly increased consumer pressure for the commercial sector to demonstrate its commitment to recycling and carbon emissions reduction.”

If you are a restaurant or catering establishment and want to reduce your carbon footprint then join eco-eating today!

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If you would like to improve your restaurant’s green credentials or simply want to find out more please contact us;

	email us here info@cawleys.co.uk
	or call the eco-eating team on; 0845 260 2000

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