Cooking Up Change: How Your Restaurant or Cafe Can Be More Sustainable
Reducing the environmental impact of your restaurant or cafe may seem like a daunting task, but it’s easier than you think.
Our sustainability guide follows five simple steps to minimise your impact on the environment, make a positive contribution to your community, and enjoy the flow-on benefits of embracing sustainability.
Get The Guide: How to Make Your Restaurant or Cafe More Sustainable
Five-step sustainability plan to reduce your impact and engage your community.
What's in the Guide?
Reduce Waste, Educate Your Customers, and Become a Sustainability Leader
Australians throw away around 1.9 million tonnes of packaging every single year (source). Unsurprisingly, a large portion of this packaging comes from the foodservice industry.
The good news: Your restaurant or cafe can reduce your packaging waste by switching to compostable or reusable alternatives and adopting appropriate end-of-life disposal methods – all without compromising quality, price, sturdiness and durability.
Our Sustainable Restaurant Guide includes some easy packaging swaps – as well as simple changes you can make to reduce water and energy, educate your customers, and become known as a purpose-led business
1. Swap your packaging to eco-friendly options
By ditching single-use plastic packaging for compostable alternatives, you will reduce your carbon footprint and save a lot of plastic waste going to landfills/escaping into the natural environment.
2. Start composting to reduce waste
You can monitor your food inventory, optimise portion sizes and donate surplus ingredients to charities but it's inevitable that food waste will be created in your restaurant or cafe. Through composting, you can divert your food waste and compostable packaging from going to landfills and create nutrient-rich compost. Composting can be easy with Compost Connect! Visit their website to start reducing your waste today.
3. Reduce your water and energy consumption
Have you ever considered how to reduce restaurant water and energy consumption?
Whether swapping to energy-efficient dishwashers, using water-saving toilets or taps, or opting for renewable energy, there are a number of ways to reduce the water and energy consumption in your restaurant. It's safe to say any efficiencies realised will often translate to dollars saved – and who doesn't love saving money?
4. Educate your customers
Don't let your effort go unnoticed. Make sure your customers know about your restaurant sustainability practices, spread the word and get your customers onboard your sustainability journey, too.
5. Become a profit-for-purpose business
Make your business a force for good by becoming a certified B corporation. Partner with other sustainable, ethical businesses and support your local community. Make the world a better place through your work.
Why is Sustainability Important for Restaurants?
Reduce Costs
Support the Community
Lower Carbon Footprint
Improve Brand
In a world where consumers are increasingly mindful of how their choices impact the environment, sustainability is more important than ever. Adopting more sustainable approaches within your restaurant or cafe is not only better for the planet, but better for business. You’ll reduce costs (every bit helps!), improve profits, lower your environmental footprint and increase brand loyalty.
Be green to be seen! The importance of sustainability in restaurants cannot be understated in today's world as consumers are increasingly concerned with the environment and how their purchasing decisions impact it. Being a sustainable restaurant or cafe is good for the planet and also your business. You'll reduce costs (every bit helps!), improve profits, lower your environmental footprint, increase brand loyalty and also support the community.
This Is the Positive Impact That Could Be Made by an Average Restaurant
Simply by choosing BioPak packaging, you can make a real difference for the environment.
1.3 tonnes
5 tonnes
of Plastic Avoided
1.59 tonnes
5 tonnes
Diverted from Landfill
4.63 tonnes
of Carbon Offset
Calculate Your Positive Impact
Enter your own numbers below or select some pre-selected scenarios to see the difference switching from regular plastic to BioPak compostable packaging can make. A simple switch can have a significant environmental impact
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Join Compost Connect
Start your composting journey today and divert food and packaging waste from landfill. Did you know that only 9% of the plastic we as humans produce is recycled? That’s a lot of plastic waste ending up in landfills or, worse, in our oceans. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
By choosing BioPak packaging that can be composted through Compost Connect, not only can you divert waste from landfill, but you can also contribute to soil health by generating nutrient-dense compost – it’s a win-win!
Start Composting at Your Foodservice Business
By joining Compost Connect, you’ll be diverting waste from landfill, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, showing your commitment to environmental sustainability, and turning your food and packaging waste into nutrient-rich compost!
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