Making your business operations environmentally responsible is a great way to reduce your environmental impact, save money, and attract customers and employees who want to work for you.

Eco-friendly services can be easily adoptable in a lot of ways. Your business, as well as our planet, can benefit from even the smallest changes.

Is it worth it for businesses to go green?

Our actions can have a direct or indirect effect on the environment, from the amount of food we waste to the amount of energy we consume. Small but sustainable changes in your service might have some genuinely positive impacts on the ecosystem - whether it's reducing greenhouse gas emissions or the pollution of oceans and other ecosystems.

Customers will appreciate it if you show you care about the environment. Showing that you are not only concerned with profits will help you strengthen your relationship with customers. Considering the current state of our planet, corporations cannot afford to continue taking the environment for granted. Data has shown that companies contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and waste more than individuals.

Since it's possible to save money with environmentally friendly practices. Take advantage of the opportunity to save money by adopting a few environmentally friendly practices for your business.

How do we do that?

There are two ways to effectively consider ethical practices for the earth.

One is to create a menu that suits your needs as well as the environment's needs.

Many of the factors that cause people to return to your establishment are related to your menu. Additionally, certain tweaks here and there to your menu is one of the simplest ways to make your service more sustainable.

How your food is grown can have a huge impact on the environment. The carbon footprint of domestically grown or picked ingredients is often much smaller than that of imported items. Local produce is an ideal way of reducing your menu's food miles and doing that little bit more for the environment. It is easy to choose local produce, but also very effective in reducing the distance your food travels which goes a long way in diminishing its carbon footprint.

In spite of this, local ingredients don't always result in less environmental damage than their distant counterparts. Bringing in out-of-season produce from greenhouses and keeping it in a refrigerator for several months has a far greater carbon footprint than flying in ingredients from other countries with their natural climate.

Therefore, it is important that you purchase local, in-season produce whenever possible in order to use the most environmentally friendly ingredients.

The second way is to establish a system for waste reduction and management

The potential damage to the environment from all forms of waste is immense, regardless of whether it's food waste or packaging. When waste is decomposed at landfills, greenhouse gases are released, groundwater is polluted, and soil is contaminated. Creating, collecting, transporting, and processing waste also contributes to huge amounts of carbon emissions, energy, and resources - and all of those can have an adverse effect on the environment.

Zero waste may not be an achievable goal immediately, but there are a lot of ways to manage waste more sustainably or significantly reduce it.

A method businesses like to use is to employ is to replace traditional disposable plastics, eco-friendly options are available. For example, instead of plastic utensils and dinnerware, you can make use of biodegradable or compostable products  that are made out of renewable materials.

Alcas has two options for your business:

Bio Happy containers are high-quality recycled food containers specifically made for the food industry. These are great for desserts, gelato, ice cream, drinking cups, and even spoons.

Yeti Bio is specifically made for your takeaway ice cream needs which is totally biodegradable and compostable in its soul structure. It is the successor of the already popular Yeti by Alcas.

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