By Isabel Schestak, Post-doctoral researcher, Bangor University Commercial kitchens in the UK hospitality and food service sector consume more energy for the preparation of meals than cooking in domestic kitchens. However, they can also play a vital role in climate change mitigation. The heat in the drain water of commercial kitchens is a valuable source …
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By Hannah Page, Brand Lead at Belu Water Wednesday 16th June marks World Refill Day – a day all about choosing reusable options over single-use packaging. UK consumers are thought to go through a whopping 28 billion single use drinks bottles and cans a year. This realisation has caused many people and businesses alike to …
By James Sampson, Partnerships Director, Inspired Energy Water is often referred to as ‘the forgotten utility’. While many large businesses are clearly focussed on their comprehensive energy strategies, it seems many are yet to implement a strategy around managing their water usage. Without a water management strategy, many businesses don’t realise when they have a …
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Mick Jary, Specification Director, Meiko UK For operational foodservice staff, it’s easy to say, ‘it’s not my bill,’ leave the lights on, or the tap leaking and shrug off the consequences as ‘not my problem’. As business leaders though, this is where we can and must do more, not just for the bottom line for …
As a Managing Director of an expanding, popular pizza restaurant group, Gavin Smith is constantly looking for ways for making the business better – better for the customer, the team, the bottom line and the planet. Being just a dozen sites, Pizza Pilgrims is still agile and positive changes can be introduced quickly. The issue …
How Pizza Pilgrims put 4.5 tonnes of London basil on the menu Read More »
Summary by Tom Tanner, SRA Host Natalia Agathou, LWARB Guests: Andrew Stephen, CEO, CRA Arthur Potts Dawson, Chefs Manifesto and Omved Gardens Chef Grace Regan, Founder, SpiceBox LWARB’s Advance London Team and the SRA partnered on creating Circular Restaurants: Food that doesn’t cost the earth – a guide to help food businesses, and restaurants in …
by Rosie Rayner-Law, Membership Project Assistant “By choosing a One Planet Plate in a SU-Eatable Life canteen, you can be sure that you’re choosing a dish which has a low impact on the environment.“ The project SU-Eatable Life is a project focused on increasing choices of sustainable food in canteens. The SRA, alongside our partners, …
In the hot summer of 1858 human waste and effluent littered the banks of the River Thames causing what became known as the Great Stink. Parliament acted and Joseph Bazalgette was commissioned to design and build a sewer network in London. As any good civil engineer would, he created the spec for the sewer and, …
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, living on Mars, or perhaps under water, you’re probably felt the Attenborough effect. Whether or not you watched in horror as the doyen of wildlife documentaries shamed us all over our plastic addiction, you’ll almost certainly be aware of the fallout from Blue Planet. While plastic remains a …
Straws, stirrers, bottles and cups – who’s getting drastic with plastic? Read More »
By Will Nicholson, Founder, IntoFood Food systems contribute at least 25% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions (1), are major consumers of available water (2), major causes of deforestation (3) and both terrestrial and marine biodiversity loss (4), and yet about a third of the food that we produce is never actually eaten (5). Added to …
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