Do you work in a cafe or hospitality business and want to get started on reducing your waste? The tools below will help you reduce your waste and save the planet!
Hospitality
THE UDDER WAY
The average café will use around 10,000 plastic milk bottles per year. The Udder Way is a brilliant invention by a Tasmanian coffee shop owner Edward Crick who was fed up with the amount of plastic milk bottles leaving his café every week knowing only half end up recycled.
The Udder Way Café, Deli, and Link Kits allow the user to store and dispense milk from an installed tap ensuring fresh and free-flowing milk without the waste and clutter involved with conventional plastic milk bottles. In Victoria, Schulz Organic is the partnering dairy! Learn more.
GOOD WRAP
One of the most common waste items in a commercial kitchen is plastic cling wrap. Until recently there was no alternative that did the job as quickly and as easily.
Thankfully two clever legends from Melbourne have created a 100% home compostable stretch wrap material from potato waste. Great Wrap will biodegrade in organic waste within 180 days and leaves behind ZERO micro plastics! Great Wrap is also made locally in Tullamarine. Learn more.
REGROUND
Every year, Australia produces an estimated 75,000 tonnes of ground coffee waste, with the majority of it ending up in landfill. Reground is a local Melbourne offering a range of circular innovation services to help you reduce what you send to landfill.
As well as offering consultancy services for apartment blocks and councils, Reground work with some of Melbourne’s best cafes to divert coffee grounds and chaff from landfill. Reground will supply you with a special bin that makes it easy for you to empty your knock box before it is picked up and delivered to a community garden in need of nutrient rich additions to their soil. Too easy! Learn more.
SHARE WASTE
Share Waste is like a dating app for your compost! This website links those who need to offload their organic waste (donors) with others (hosts) who are in the market for more food scraps to service their composting systems or worm farms.
This is a really useful tool for those businesses without access to organic waste systems and no space for a compost bin! Learn more.
COUNCIL BINS
The council waste systems here in Victoria differ from council to council. For some, you might automatically receive a food waste green bin and for others you might need to submit a request. If you’re unsure of what services are available where you live, Sustainability Victoria have a handy index of council site links that take you straight to where the relevant waste info is. Easy as! Learn more.