Restaurant Recycling

1. Restaurant Recycling Sadie Grattan Environmental Science Sustainability Project

2. Restaurants in the U.S. • “Waste from restaurants and other food service establishments is more than 76% organic that can be recycled” (Restaurant Food Waste Recycling). • “A single restaurant, on average, disposes more than 50 tons of organic waste every year, ” (Restaurant Food Waste Recycling).

3. Restaurants in the U.S. • According to the New York Times, in 2010, there were 579,102 restaurants in the U.S. • Waste from restaurants is categorized in 9 categories (US Environmental Protection Agency) • Food waste for 2010 reached more than 34 million tons (US Environmental Protection Agency)

4. Restaurant Contribution to Waste in the U.S. Restaurants contribute to the 13.9 % of 250 Million Tons of Food Scrap Waste

5. Restaurant Contribution to Waste in the U.S. Restaurants contribute greatly to the 89.02 million tons of wastes comprising of food, plastics and paper products.

6. Waste Recycling in the US Seattle Washington ranks 6th in the US for Recycling

7. Port Angeles Restaurant Recycling • Cardboard: McDonalds, 31 Flavors, Gordy’s Pizza, Dominos, Safeway, Subway, Frugals, Bushwacker, Wendy's, Texaco, and Smugglers • Plastic: Safeway, Smugglers, Bushwacker • Oil: McDonalds, Smugglers, Wendy’s • Food Scraps: Safeway (From Deli)

8. Murrey Disposal in Port Angeles • Contact Customer Services • Murrey's Disposal Co, Inc. Mailing AddressP.O. Box 399 Puyallup, WA 98371-0158Site Address3600 Port of Tacoma RdSuite 505Tacoma, WA 98424Customer Service253.414.0345contact us: murreysdisposal@wasteconnections.com

9. Murrey Disposal in Port Angeles • Collection Services - Tacoma, Gig Harbor, & Surrounding Areas DM Disposal offers various levels of residential garbage, recycling, and yard waste services throughout Pierce County. DM's service area includes customers within the city limits of Bonney Lake, Buckley, Carbonado, Milton, Orting, Puyallup, South Prairie and Sumner Murrey's, American, and Vashon Disposal offers various levels of residential garbage, recycling, and yard waste services throughout much of unincorporated Pierce County, including Gig Harbor and on Vashon Island DM Recycling Co Inc offers a variety of commerical recycling services throughout the metropolitan Tacoma and Gig Harbor area, including Bonney Lake, Puyallup, Milton, Orting, Sumner, other areas in Pierce County, and parts of King County

10. Murrey Disposal in Port Angeles Commingled Recycling Cart By ‘commingled,’ we mean ‘mixed’ recycling. DM Recycling provides our customers with 96-gallon commingle carts for your recycling needs. Acceptable materials include office paper, newspaper, phone books, cardboard, plastic bottles, and metal cans. These wheeled carts eliminate the need for sorting your recyclables, making it that much easier for your organization to participate in the recycling program. We believe recycling is a cooperative endeavor and we at DM Recycling are committed to service that is responsive, fair, efficient, and effective. We continue to look for new ways to improve quality and cost effectiveness. For more information on acceptable commingled cart recyclables please see Commingled Do's and Dont's below or visit our related links page. Commingled Recycling Container For business with higher volumes of mixed recycling, DM Recycling provides our customers commingle containers for your recycling needs. These containers accept the same material as our commingle recycle carts, but hold a larger quantity of recyclables allowing you to reduce your garbage service by greater amounts. Available in both a 2-cubic and 6-cubic yard style, our recycling containers are clean and attractive and provide an efficient and easy method for customers to participate in recycling. Cardboard Recycling Container Does your business generate a lot of cardboard? The most cost effective solution to you may be a ‘cardboard only’ container. Available in both a 2-cubic and 6-cubic yard style, the cardboard container accepts any non-food contaminated cardboard. There is no need to remove tape or staples, just flatten and fill!

11. Bottle Bill • Definition • The term “bottle bill” is actually another way of saying “container deposit law.” A container deposit law requires a minimum refundable deposit on beer, soft drink and other beverage containers in order to ensure a high rate of recycling or reuse. • How Bottle Bill Works • Deposits on beverage containers are not a new idea. The deposit-refund system was created by the beverage industry as a means of guaranteeing the return of their glass bottles to be washed, refilled and resold. When a retailer buys beverages from a distributor, a deposit is paid to the distributor for each can or bottle purchased. The consumer pays the deposit to the retailer when buying the beverage. When the consumer returns the empty beverage container to the retail store, to a redemption center, or to a reverse vending machine, the deposit is refunded. The retailer recoups the deposit from the distributor, plus an additional handling fee in most U.S. states. The handling fee, which generally ranges from 1-3 cents, helps cover the cost of handling the containers.

12. Bottle Bill

13. Litter Tax • It is a tax on manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of certain products which contribute to the litter problem in this state. • The 13 categories of products subject to the litter tax are: • food for human or pet consumption • groceries • cigarettes and tobacco products • soft drinks and carbonated beverages • beer and other malt beverages • wine • newspapers and magazines • household paper and paper products • glass containers • metal containers • plastic or fiber containers made of synthetic material • cleaning agents • non-drug drugstore sundry items

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