Waste

Green shoots: how can the on-trade be more environmentally friendly?

13-May-2021 By Stuart Stone

With COP26 on the horizon and sustainability on the nation’s lips, The Morning Advertiser measures up some of the steps being taken by the on-trade to cut its carbon footprint, and how it can help bounce back from Covid in a ‘green’ way.

Opinion

More than half of food still being wasted at hospitality venues

30-Apr-2021 By Ben Gardner, CEO, Navitas Safety

Ben Gardner, CEO of Navitas Safety, a single destination for digital food safety, explains what the food and hospitality industries can do to reduce food waste and promote a circular food economy.

How to tackle the hospitality sector’s £5.1bn food and drink waste problem

17-Feb-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Waste in the world of hospitality does not simply mean a pint is knocked over once in a while – we are looking at drinks, food, rubbish and materials that often go to landfill.

Pub group cuts the crackers for Christmas

09-Oct-2019 By Alice Leader

Family-run pub group, Uphouse Pubs, is breaking tradition by going crackerless this Christmas to help aid the battle against plastic waste by pubs.

SRA starts fight to reduce food waste

24-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched an online programme to spur pubs to reduce food waste.

Punch becomes latest pubco to stop using straws

22-Jan-2018 By Georgina Townshend

Punch has become the latest pubco to join the war against plastic straws by eliminating their use across its 70-strong retail pub estate, while encouraging its circa 1,200 leased and tenanted pubs to follow suit.

Pub sector 'ready to lead the way' on reducing plastic waste

15-Jan-2018 By Georgina Townshend

The pub sector is focused on reducing harmful plastic waste, the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) said, as it encouraged businesses in the trade that have not yet phased out and single-use banned plastic straws to do so.

Landlord convicted of fly-tipping 'could not afford waste collection'

20-Nov-2017 By Georgina Townshend

A former pub owner who claims she "could not afford" to have her waste collected has been ordered to pay a fine and costs in excess of £2,000 for dumping rubbish.

Greene King expands foodservice arm for tenants

20-Apr-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Greene King Pub Partners has expanded its range of food services to tenanted and leased pubs in its estate. 

Pub 'appalled' with waste collection service

28-May-2015 By Oli Gross

A pub freeholder is appalled with a waste collection service after four weeks of rubbish accumulated in her pub garden.

Pubs worst in industry for recycling

29-Aug-2013 By Lesley Foottit

Restaurants, bars and nightclubs are worst in the industrial and service sectors for recycling their waste.

Pubs and litter laws: New community protection notices

29-Jun-2012 By Jonathan Smith

Can you remember the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005? This Act has all sorts of goodies in it like “unlawful display of advertisements”; a defence to which is where a person would not be guilty of displaying an advertisement in contravention...

Nottingham pubs to increase environmental credentials

22-Feb-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Licensees in Nottingham city centre are being given the opportunity to increase their environmental credentials and cut waste costs through a new initiative.

SRA targets food waste with doggy bags

13-Oct-2011 By Lesley Foottit

The crackdown on avoidable food waste continued last week with 80 pub and restaurant group backing a campaign to cut the volume of discarded food and provide doggy bags.

Chris Maclean: What a load of rubbish

06-Nov-2008 By Chris Maclean

Did anyone else get a letter telling us what we're not allowed to throw in the bin? It's madness.Henceforth we are not allowed to dispose of...

Design flaws

06-Aug-2008

It is quite possible to design hygiene into a kitchen - but that doesn't stop some problems from being repeated. According to pub kitchen specialist...

M&B to up recycling

17-Apr-2008

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) plans to recycle more after the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) called for pubs to be greener. Waste...

M&B plans to ramp up recycling

11-Apr-2008

Mitchells & Butlers plans to ramp up its recycling programme

Chris Maclean: Slaughter in the garden...

20-Nov-2007 By Chris Maclean

I am not a fatalist but, frankly, there are times when things are stacked in a particular way and you are powerless to change them.As I am writing...

Back to Basics: Waste management

24-Oct-2007

The latest piece of red tape is set to trip up pubs at the end of this month when new rules come into force for the treatment of commercial waste....

Glass ceiling

26-Jul-2007

The cost of waste disposal has doubled in some pubs with the move to non-returnable bottles. Kelly Smith investigates ethical and cost-effective...

Chris Maclean: how to save the planet

11-Jul-2007 By Chris Maclean

I have just watched someone on the television showing me how we can save the planet. It involved them flying, with their film crew, halfway around...

Chris Maclean: Saving the planet is no picnic

06-Jul-2007 By Chris Maclean

I have just watched someone on the television showing me how we can save the planet. It involved them flying, with their film crew, halfway around...

Licensee fined £3,000 over pub rubbish

23-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil

A West Sussex licensee has been fined for illegally disposing of rubbish from his pub. Richard Foss of the Labouring Man, Coldwaltham, West Sussex...

Spirit hit with £5,000 fine for illegal dumping

28-Jun-2005

Spirit Group has been fined £5,000 after one of its city centre bars was found illegally dumping waste.The company was also made to pay £673 in...

Breare quashes finance worry rumours

25-Sep-2002

Noble House boss Robert Breare has rubbished industry rumours that his pub and restaurant business was stretching itself to the limit, and perhaps...