Zero Waste Kitchen Initiative Confronts Food Waste

2 Min Read By MRM Staff

An estimated 70 billion pounds of food is wasted a year.

That bears repeating.

An estimated 70 billion pounds of food is wasted a year.

A new initiative, Zero Waste Kitchen, aims to confront the issue by bringing awareness to sustainability practices in restaurants.

The effort was launched this week by restaurant technology provider BlueCart who conducted a survey revealing that when restaurants switched from traditional ordering methods to online and mobile ordering via the application, they cut their food waste by 52 percent. In addition, using the platform reduces the carbon footprint by eliminating paper from thousands of transactions.

Since stumbling upon the information, BlueCart made a commitment to support sustainability practices within the food industry through Zero Waste Kitchen, which was designed to share chef's best composting strategies and other sustainable practices in hopes of enlightening the greater chef community and preventing food waste before it even…