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    Why You Should Consider Eco-friendly Food Packaging For Your Restaurant

    November 27, 2020
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    Emerging and established restaurateurs these days are fully aware of all the wastes that their restaurants produce on a regular basis. Regardless if their business is big or small, each establishment sadly contributes to unnecessary waste as almost everything about running the business—including food packaging—comes in disposable materials. While such materials help keep food fresh and in the best condition, this long-time food packaging doesn’t help save the environment one bit.  

    As a restaurateur or a chef who owns an eatery, you should be aware that one of the biggest contributors to landfills is restaurants, mainly due to plastic food packaging. Only a few eateries use eco-friendly packaging that helps save the earth somehow. If you want to do your part for the environment, you should explore better suppliers of food packaging supplies. Yes, alternatives now exist, and the materials are not confined to just plastics. You can choose from high-quality yet biodegradable paper boxes, paper bags, and cups, among others.  

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    It might appear as a small effort at first, but check out the big benefits below of choosing eco-friendly food packaging for your restaurant: 

    Reduces Carbon Footprint 

    Carbon footprint refers to the amount of greenhouse gas released to the environment due to various human activities, resulting in climate change and global warming. Going for eco-friendly packing means helping to reduce your carbon footprint by not adding on to plastic material wastes. This is possible since the production of eco-friendly packaging releases minimal amounts of carbon emissions during production. The less of these items are manufactured and produced, the better.

    Easy Disposal 

    Plastic-based materials take forever to decompose—or they don’t break down at all. These items remain in landfills all around the globe, contributing to pollutants that could be released into the atmosphere and waterways. Meanwhile, eco-friendly packaging could be ‘thrown away’ easily since they could end up in a more appropriate place than the landfill—a compost bin. 

    You could opt to establish a small compost area nearby, wherein such trash could be disposed of easily since their materials are biodegradable. Some of these containers could even be recycled, further minimizing the negative impact on the environment.  

    Improves Your Brand Image 

    Everyone loves a company that strives to help the planet. By going for non-harmful food packaging, you’re setting your image as an environment-friendly business automatically. It helps if you extend this earth-friendly philosophy to all aspects of your restaurant—from food packaging, storage, waste disposal, and reducing single-use items. People who see your efforts would appreciate your brand more and applaud such changes.  

    You can even take it a step further by going eco-friendly with the design of your restaurant to make it friendlier to the planet. Plus, it’ll look amazing as well.

    Safe With Food 

    When going for eco-friendly food packaging, you’ll be reducing the use of unsafe plastics. Studies have proven that some types of plastics used for food packaging were discovered to be unhealthy, as some chemicals in the packaging could leak or contaminate the food or beverage. Granted that food-grade plastics now exist, but they could still appear harmful to the environment due to their production processes. With eco-friendly food packaging, you’re eliminating the possibilities of customers experiencing accidental health problems.

    Expands Your Customer Base 

    More people are now turning to an eco-friendly lifestyle by practicing earth-friendly actions in their daily lives. One primary way that they demonstrate this philosophy is by reducing their use of all types of plastics and easy disposable products from their daily habits. People are more conscious when going to restaurants, too, so they opt to bring their own cutlery or ask for non-single use ones.

    Since people are looking for establishments with an eco-friendly flair, some will react negatively when they receive their food takeaways in plastic containers. Thus, when they see how you practice saving mother nature by using eco-friendly food packaging, they would likely support your business for the long haul. Your restaurant helps ease their conscience of not using plastics, and you’re attracting more people who want to pursue green living, too.  

    Conclusion 

    Having a restaurant could be a fulfilling business indeed, especially if cooking or preparing great food is your passion. There’s nothing like seeing the smiles on your customers’ faces once they take a bite of the delicious meals you prepared. 

    But deciding to go green with everything you do—not just in connection with serving veggies—will even be more rewarding since the planet would be smiling right back at you, thanks to your efforts to redo and challenge certain long-time industry procedures. When choosing to use eco-friendly food packaging, you’re helping to save the environment a lot more. You can still achieve your goals as a business while also being a better friend to the environment. 

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