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Earth911 Podcast: Re:Dish CEO Caroline Vanderlip on Creating a Circular Food Service System

Earth911 Podcast: Re:Dish CEO Caroline Vanderlip on Creating a Circular Food Service System

FromEarth911.com's Sustainability In Your Ear


Earth911 Podcast: Re:Dish CEO Caroline Vanderlip on Creating a Circular Food Service System

FromEarth911.com's Sustainability In Your Ear

ratings:
Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Oct 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of Re:Dish, joins the conversation to discuss making cafeteria, institutional and restaurant food service sustainable. Re:Dish provides reusable food service items, collecting, returning them to a dish washing facility each day, and delivering a fresh supply to its customers, which include corporate and school cafeterias, hospitals and . Re:Dish containers offers several #5 plastic (polypropylene) clamshell and round meal containers that are rented on a per-use basis to institutional customers. These containers do not include the PFAS used to prevent leakage in many compostable food service products. Customers are provided with informational guides for diners and branded collection containers that Re:Dish empties each day.Re:Dish claims that a company cafeteria that reuses an average of 500 containers instead of molded pulp single-user containers every business day for a year can prevent 125,000 items from going to a landfill and that it will use 67% less water and produce 77% fewer Scope 3 emissions, those produced from sourcing, making, and shipping the single-use containers. The company has also declared its own zero-waste goal, which it wants to achieve by next year, 2023 — they currently divert 76% of the waste in its facilities from landfills. You can learn more about Re:Dish at https://www.redish.com/
Released:
Oct 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Each week, Evelyn Lopez and the Earth911.com team talk sustainability news, interview sustainability leaders, and answer your questions about how to recycle and buy responsibly. You have more power to improve the world than you know! Listen in to get started saving the planet!