The average restaurant produces over 150,000 pounds of waste a year. Some restaurants are aware of this issue, and take a zero-waste mentality. This means they compost all food scraps, seek to use local ingredients that would have otherwise been trashed, and don't let anything wrapped in single-use packaging through the door.
I want to have an easy way to locate these restaurants so I can harm the environment as little as possible when eating out or ordering in. I also hope that increasing awareness might spread the word about this issue to restaurants and foodies.
Who are the stakeholders?
Zero waste restaurants
Environmentalists
Foodies
What is currently being done to solve this problem?
Zero waste home
There are solutions to increase awareness to this issue and move to a zero waste life. For example, Zero Waste Home helps you fill your house with zero waste items. It has a search option for buying in bulk from zero waste stores.
Google reviews
You can google zero waste restaurants and find helpful info such as opening hours, and sometimes menus. Restaurants results might also contain reviews.
Online articles and posts
You can find many articles about zero waste restaurants online:
FoodPrints
tl;dr: Eating in/ordering from zero waste and environment aware restaurants.
Name:
Michal (@zurda)
The problem I'd like to solve
The average restaurant produces over 150,000 pounds of waste a year. Some restaurants are aware of this issue, and take a zero-waste mentality. This means they compost all food scraps, seek to use local ingredients that would have otherwise been trashed, and don't let anything wrapped in single-use packaging through the door.
I want to have an easy way to locate these restaurants so I can harm the environment as little as possible when eating out or ordering in. I also hope that increasing awareness might spread the word about this issue to restaurants and foodies.
Who are the stakeholders?
What is currently being done to solve this problem?
Zero waste home
There are solutions to increase awareness to this issue and move to a zero waste life. For example, Zero Waste Home helps you fill your house with zero waste items. It has a search option for buying in bulk from zero waste stores.
Google reviews
You can google zero waste restaurants and find helpful info such as opening hours, and sometimes menus. Restaurants results might also contain reviews.
Online articles and posts
You can find many articles about zero waste restaurants online:
These help share locations and veriety of specific restaurants, however it's usually hard to find an up to date restaurant list.