Houston Certified Green Restaurant Serves up Dinner, Drinks, and Recycling
New Houston, TX restaurant, Ruggles Green, is serving up organic and natural food, as well as reducing its waste stream and recycling.
According to a report from KHOU-TV in Houston, one of the restaurants biggest waste streams is glass. They have two containers for glass as well as for cardboard. Restaurant partner Federico Marques reports, “If restaurants focused only on glass and cardboard and nothing else, they could probably reduce their landfill waste by half.”
Between glass bottles and cardboard, the restaurant recycles almost 80% of waste generated. In October 2009, glass bottles represented 53% of their recycling mix, with cardboard next at 25%. The glass is collected by Mark Austin of WeCANRecycle, who was featured in the June 2009 issue of GPI’s Inside Glass Packaging. Watch the video
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The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) is the trade association representing the North American glass container industry. Through GPI, glass container manufacturers speak with one voice to advocate industry standards, promote sound environmental policies and educate packaging professionals. GPI member companies manufacture glass containers for food, beverage, cosmetic and many other products. GPI also has associate members that represent a broad range of suppliers and closure manufacturers.
