How To: Start a Rooftop Garden
Understanding how the conversion from standard roof to rooftop garden works is the first step in making this idea become reality. Having a rooftop garden will allow for urban greenery and help you become a pioneer in the neighborhood showing suitability practices in work.
After you understand the process, your next step is to find a consulting/construction company that specializes in this type of project. Believe it or not, there are more than a few companies out there, so you’re likely to have the opportunity to shop around and find the right fit for you. Then, once you’ve designed your plan with the consultants, the upgrade can begin.
From Roof to Restaurant: Starting an On-site Restaurant Garden
Rooftop gardens are popular these days not just for residential buildings, but for commercial buildings as well. You might want to invest in a rooftop garden for your restaurant for the ease, value and for helping your bottom line.
They’re starting to pop up all over the country: restaurants that implement a multi-tiered solution to some of these environmental, community and profit margin problems. Their answer: rooftop and on premises urban gardens.
Sounds kinda radical right? Believe it or not, this green movement solution incorporates more benefits than problems, and will literally change the face of your community, your environment and of course, your business—all at the same time.
Can’t Compost? Think Again! Commercial Composting Options for Your Restaurant
Industrial waste removal services charge by how much waste they carry away—and the garbage removal costs are rising. Landfills are filling up at a steadily increasing rate as populations grow. But did you know that there are several environmentally-friendly, cost-efficient ways to reduce your food waste?
The best option may be commercial composting. Composting is an increasingly popular trend in the restaurant industry for a lot of reasons, but many restaurants are unable to compost on-site in an effective manner due to space restrictions, time and labor involved, or even due to a lack of general composting knowhow. Restaurants produce a lot of organic waste, and unless they are able compost on-site, the only other option used to be to just throw it all away.
However, most cities around the country now have a commercial composting service, which means you can compost your food waste —even if you can’t swing it on-site.
The Benefits of Composting: Turn Your Restaurant’s Waste into Profit
One of the biggest expenses every restaurant faces is consistent and proper waste removal. Did you know that in a commercial kitchen, it’s estimated that as much as 70% of all waste is made up of organic material like food scraps and soiled napkins? Many big chain restaurants literally throw it all in the garbage. Food waste, glass, paper and other recyclables all tossed away, with little consideration for the trash’s value as a resource.
Small- to medium-sized restaurants feel the local impact much more than their larger chain restaurant brothers, and simply cannot afford to operate the same way. Not only are you concerned about the community that you work in—the same community that supports you—but you recognize opportunity when you see it.
Extra food doesn’t have to be hauled away by trash collection just to decompose in a landfill somewhere. Instead, consider learning how to recycle leftover food by turning your compostable items into something that can be repurposed for the greater good.
