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Measures, Technologies and Good Practices
Do you want to know how much different measures and technological solutions would cost and how much money and resources they can save for your business? This database offers such data in a concise and comprehensive format.
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Good practice
Reducing food waste takes all-in effort
Restaurant is 'boxing clever' on reducing food waste
Tandoori restaurant involves staff in campaign to reduce waste
Portion sizes identified as major contributor, calling for a total rethink
The...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 0 Year(s)
Tags:
Good practice
Low- and no-cost measures to reduce food thrown away
Even top performers can learn how to further reduce food waste
Café fine-tunes its well-established practices that respect every part of the food system
It offers tips and interacts with everyone in...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 0 Year(s)
Tags:
Good practice
Hotel shares the benefits of reducing food waste
Plant-to-plate thinking
Food-waste warrior volunteers to be a YBIF ambassador after positive experience with programme, and leads by example
Communicating with guests about the food on their plate...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 0 Year(s)
Tags:
Good practice
Seaside hotel drives breakfast buffet savings
Try the popular 'savoury crumble'!
Inventive hotel comes up with measures to optimise breakfast shifts and reduce food waste
Clever use of leftovers in new dishes and surplus food offered to staff at...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 0 Year(s)
Tags:
Good practice
Balancing food waste and customer experience
A portion of caution
Hotel restaurant trials smaller portions to reduce massive amounts of observed 'plate waste'
The trial followed WRAP recommendations
Great care is needed to balance customer...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 0 Year(s)
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Measure
Low-cost energy saving measures for efficient refrigeration
Energy saving does not need to be expensive. Up to 20 % can be cut in many refrigeration plants through actions that require little or no investment. The actions should be focused on good ...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
- Hotel and restaurant
- Wholesale and retail
Resources:
- Energy
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost
Good practice
Quality wood only from sustainable Finnish forests
Feel the positive energy!
Hoisko uses only wood from sustainable and responsible forestry
Responsibly harvested wood is a very sustainable raw material
Hoisko is a cross-laminated timber (CLT) brand...
Sector / Industry:
- Timber and woodworking
Resources:
- Materials
Good practice
Energy awareness and positive involvement at Finnish dairy
Multiple actions, one goal... save energy!
Arla Oy organises yearly energy awareness-raising actions involving the entire organisation
The campaigns communicate energy saving potential in everyday...
Sector / Industry:
- All sectors
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost
Good practice
Green CIP delivers multiple benefits in dairy production
Leaning towards clever cleaning
Employing CIP cuts caustic soda use by some 90 %, and energy and water use by 50 % each
It also decreases cleaning downtime, boosts productivity and generates...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
- Materials
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
Good practice
Heat recovery potential in small food factory refrigeration
Great recovery!
Making the case for investing in chillers with heat recovery potential
Payback can be as fast as two years
Refrigeration systems cannot make heat disappear – they just move it from...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
- Wholesale and retail
Resources:
- Energy
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost 2 - 5 Year(s)
Good practice
Solar heat in breweries
Spotting the solar trend
German brewery seemlessly integrates solar into its energy mix
155 m2 solar thermal system produces 400 MWh a year
To help offset growing energy costs and improve its...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost 20 - 25 Year(s)
Good practice
Fine-tuned energy management in French cannery
Better data... in the can
Carbon Footprint analysis points to the need for better, comparable data feeding optimised metering and operations
Measures lead to 36 % savings on steam production and...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost 1.5 - 2 Year(s)
Tags:
- Footprint calculation
- Cleaner production
- Monitoring
- Smart meter
- Sensors
- Sterilisation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy audit
- Energy savings
- Environmental management
- Water management
- Process water
- Steam
- Bleaching
- Optimisation of process control
- Process control
- Process controlling
- Process control systems
- Preheating
- Cooling
- Refrigeration, freezing and cooling
- Temperature optimisation
- Controlling