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'Food waste is a big problem for our planet, and anyone who has ever worked in
the food industry probably knows firsthand how much waste even well-intentioned
business can produce. In Carmel-By-The-Sea, California, however, one fancy
restaurant has discovered an innovative and low-lift way to drastically reduce
the amount of waste it sends off to landfills,
Monterey County Weekly
reported.
Anton & Michel, a high-end restaurant where you can order such menu items as
Oysters Rockefeller and Housemade Duck Liver Pate, recently invested in a Mill
food recycler. The high-tech trash can, which retails for $999, heats, dries,
and grinds food scraps into a dirt-like material, turning every 10 pounds of
food waste into a mere one pound.
Reducing a restaurant's overall quantity of food waste by 90% is no small
thing.
"When you work in a restaurant, you produce so much waste. You should see our
[food] bins, they are overflowing during busy times of the year," Loie Al
Nimri, owner of Anton & Michel, told
Monterey County Weekly. "It's been
amazing. We plan to order four more."
Even better, the resulting material doesn't even smell bad. "It kind of looks
like coffee grounds and smells like dried spices, because that's what's left
when you take all the water out of food," said Mill PR rep Amanda Plante.
While the material can be thrown away with much lower environmental impact than
10 times as much (wet) food waste, it can also be sent back to Mill, which
turns it into chicken feed.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
