General Resources

Resources from the Columbia Sushwap Regional District CSRD

The CSRD provides many composting resources that can be used as signs in business, institutions, or homes. These resources range from general to specific and detail how to compost in Revelstoke. Click the links below to read about acceptable materials and how to avoid contaminating your compost bin.

• Acceptable Compost Materials Poster

• Detailed Compost Sorting guide

• Accepted materials and FAQ

Learn about the cost of food waste, common causes, and tools to prevent food waste in restaurants. The following is a review of successful practices in 114 restaurants:

• Business case for restaurants for reducing food loss and food waste

The following documents contain instructions for the use of the Food Waste Excel Workbook. The Excel Workbook is a template for Recipe cost calculation, customer forecasting, production planning, waste logging and more. Food service food waste prevention and reduction.

• Part 1, Food Waste Reduction Toolkit Report

• Part 2, Food Waste Reduction Toolkit Instruction Manual

• Part 3, Excel Workbook

This following link provides a free course on how hotels can prevent and reduce food waste:

• Fighting Food Waste in Hotels

• Toolkit for hotels

Technology

Measure and manage your operations - including food waste! Food that ends up in the garbage costs so much money and is a waste of resources. There are many technological solutions out there to help measure food waste and provide insights to prevent and reduce it in the future.

If you are not keen on using technology to measure food waste, consider tracking it manually for at least two weeks to gain an idea of what ends up in the garbage. Here is a link to a template.

here are some tools that are built for the hospitality industry:

• Tenzo

• Winnow Solutions

• Too good to go it’s an app where businesses can sell surplus food to consumers

• Leanpath

• Kitro

Staff training is important to ensure a successful food waste diversion program.

Consider what communication channels will be most effective in reaching your staff. Ideas include team meetings and communication boards. Also don’t forget to include it in the on-boarding process for new team members!

• training videos on reducing food waste

There are some great resources provided by metrovancouver.org under the “apartment and condos” section.