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Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is dramatically changing the face of how hospitals deal with their food waste. The Waste-2-Water system has been successfully implemented to provide the hospital with a wide spectrum of significant cost and carbon emission reductions. The Waste-2-Water system is simplistic in nature and the NHS Stockport team are seeing minimal, [...]
East Sussex County Council is installing the new Rational SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency® in all its kitchen refits East Sussex County Council is responsible for approximately 20,000 school meals per day. The watchwords of the catering department are efficiency and quality. About three years ago East Sussex began replacing older kitchen equipment with Rational SelfCookingCenters. “As [...]
AS THE Economic & Social Research Council reports; the history of social and environmental concern about business is as old as trade itself. Commercial logging operations, together with laws to protect forests, can be traced back almost 5,000 years. By the 1920s discussions about the social responsibilities of business had evolved into what we can [...]
There’s not doubt that McDonald’s are on a Sustainability drive. We’ve written about them in the latest Magazine Issue 14 and as one of the Sponsors of London 2012, we hear them talked about almost daily. McDonald’s produce a Global Sustainability Scorecard. This should be taken along with the information held on their website about their [...]
Dudson is a fundamental part of the history of the Potteries where it has been making beautifully crafted pottery for over 200 years and is the oldest surviving family business in the ceramic foodservice tableware industry. Kathy Bowry reports on the company’s great leap forward into a sustainable new world. Dudson, the big name in [...]
Over the past four years, Reynolds has been building its environmental strategy, achieving certification against the environmental standard BS8555 in 2009. This accreditation milestone rewarded Reynolds’ hard work and encouraged further development; indeed, Reynolds is due to have its first ISO14001 audit at the time of going to press. The ISO14001 audit will predominantly focus [...]
CH&Co extols the many benefits of using Category 2 produce and says nature’s misfits have their part to play in the battle to promote sustainability. Every year tonnes of perfectly edible fresh produce is thrown away because it is not cosmetically perfect. Aware of the environmental impact of such waste, CH&Co has been purchasing [...]
Eileen Steinbock, head of health and nutrition at Brakes Group, talks about the company’s innovative strategy to deal with the needs of an ageing population: and she isn’t just talking about care homes. The population of the Uk is ageing. Over the past 25 years the percentage of the population aged 65 and over [...]
For a long time now, Dudson has adopted a proactive approach towards production methods, introducing new technologies and methods of production to reduce the impact of its manufacturing operations on the environment. MANUFACTURING CERAMIC products has traditionally been costly to the environment, with firing and glazing in particular requiring high energy use. But with [...]
Warewasher manufacturer Winterhalter has found a way to manage water and energy usage in its machines that offers major sustainable benefits – and fewer broken plates. Getting the balance right when it comes to energy and water usage on dishwashers is a tricky balancing act; water and electricity have to be used but it [...]
