EAT Restaurant Initiative

The Alabama Environmental Council (AEC) would like to invite you to join the Earth Aware Team (EAT)!

What’s EAT about?

Raising awareness around disposable waste in restaurants, bars, and breweries that impact our health and the health of the planet.

The EAT initiative promotes sustainable practices including the following:

  • Favoring the use of reusable containers over disposable.
  • Reducing landfill waste through composting, recycling, and food rescue organizations.
  • Avoiding disposable containers that leach toxins into our food and ultimately contaminate our soil and water. 

If you’re a bar, brewery, or restaurant, you can fill out the EAT Partner Application HERE, and we will get you started.

As a consumer, you can support restaurants that adopt sustainable practices. Look for the EAT Seal identifying partner restaurants.



Gold Sustainable Partner

Polyfluoroalkyl substances known as PFAS, have been shown to migrate out of food ware and into our foods and drinks–they are toxic!

PFAS is most prevalent in molded fiber foodware. Typically, it does not contain a visible liner. Instead, fluorinated compounds are often mixed into the molded fiber slurry. This imparts grease and water resistance to the foodware product.


Restaurant Partners

Partner Organizations

Municipal Partners

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