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.
- The Alabama Environmental Council promotes its partners with a professional social media campaign on Instagram, Facebook, and our website.
- We provide our partner restaurants with a seal that identifies them as a sustainable choice for consumers. The seal can be used on food delivery apps, websites, social media, and wherever else you advertise so consumers know you are a restaurant that cares about their health and the health of the planet.
- Fill out an application to be an EAT Partner Restaurant or Resource Partner of the AEC, and a representative will be in contact with you.
Contact John Vowell at [email protected].
Gold Sustainable Partner
If you use only reusable foodware used for onsite dining, food service containers that contain low to no PFAS (unless lined with PLA or a clay coating), and other criteria found on our requirements page, you qualify as a GOLD Level Partner!
For more information:
5 EASY STEPS TO REDUCE PLASTIC AND BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS
Center for Environmental Health Guide to Safer Foodware
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
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.
HOW TO FIND PRODUCTS THAT HAVE LOW TO NO PFAS
Look for BPI Certification >> www.bpiworld.org
All products that are BPI Certified are free of intentionally added PFAS and have a total fluorine limit of 100 ppm. They are also compostable!
If you need assistance in finding alternative products, do not hesitate to contact us. We have resources that can help.
Email John at [email protected].
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