College Cafe Finds Workable Ways To Kick Plastic And Single-Use Packaging To The Curb
Food Management by Tara Fitzpatrick | January 28, 2022
Down with disposables! Bennington College’s student-managed Roz’s Café makes a carbon footprint-sized dent in the typical packaging waste that goes on in a coffee shop.
Before the pandemic, single-use plastics and packaging had been getting singled out for the environmental villains they are. When safety shifted to the forefront, sustainability got shunted to the side as many foodservice operations scrambled just to get grab-and-go options out the door any way they could, with labor and supply chain shortages complicating things further. But we, as a planet, still have a major plastics problem.