Waste Management

99% of hospitality staff want to work for sustainable businesses

10-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Ways in which hospitality businesses can cut costs and reduce waste by prolonging the life of their commercial catering equipment have been revealed by a new report from BRITA Professional.

Just one fifth of hospitality businesses know where their food waste comes from

08-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

A joint survey of leading hospitality operators, representing more than 2,3000 sites, has revealed only one fifth of sector businesses track whether their food waste comes from preparation, spoilage or plant waste.

Greene King launches campaign to reduce cask ale waste

10-Feb-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Greene King has launched the ‘Magic Pints Initiative’, in partnership with wastage saving app Too Good To Go, in a bid to save thousands of surplus pints of cask ale from being wasted.

Cut disposable plastics in pubs with new SRA advice

26-Jun-2018 By Claire Churchard

Pubs looking to cut their use of disposable plastics, such as straws, cups and cling film, have a fresh repository of advice to draw on with the launch of ‘Unwrapping Plastics: Use and Misuse in Hospitality’ manual from the Sustainable Restaurant Association...

Why reducing pub waste makes sense

13-Jun-2018 By Claire Churchard

As consumer awareness and concerns about waste increases, smart hospitality businesses are already looking at how they can do more to reduce their environmental footprint.

Waste management: plastic not so fantastic?

21-May-2018 By Claire Churchard

Efforts to stop waste plastics polluting the environment are to be commended. But experts have warned that finding a solution to do this can sometimes have unintended consequences.

Pub chefs must do more to tackle food waste: SRA

28-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

Tackling food waste must be given more focus by pub chefs to help save their businesses money and benefit the environment, a spokesman from the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has urged.

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.

ReFood director slams Labour refusal to ban sending food waste to landfill

08-Jan-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

The commercial director of ReFood has responded to the Labour party’s announcement it will not ban the sending of food waste to landfills.

New Products

Bunzl develops colour-coded packaging to help operators become greener

23-May-2014 By Elliot Kuruvita

Bunzl has created a colour-coded system to help operators recycle their packaging more effectively.

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.

Whitbread rolls out recycling scheme

21-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce

Whitbread it is to roll out an innovative food waste recycling scheme to more than 300 of its hotels and restaurants this year. The company is...

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...

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...

Chris Maclean: a dread of the morning mail

06-Mar-2007 By Chris Maclean

Every morning, when I hear that desolate thump on the hallway floor, my heart sinks at the prospect of opening the morning mail. There is that...

Recycling charge looms for pubcos

30-Jun-2005

by Ewan Turney Pubcos may be forced to fork out an extra £55,000 in recycling fees from the start of next year under new Government packaging waste...