Restaurants Launch Sustainability Association

British restaurants have come together to establish an association aimed at improving their reputation for poor environmental performance. The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) was launched on March 1.

According to the Environment Agency the restaurant industry is responsible for a staggering 3M tonnes of food waste annually in England and Wales.

Restaurants throw out about 600,000 tonnes of glass bottles a year and use 391M cubic metres of water annually, enough to fill over 104,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The SRA also aims to help restaurants realise being green is not going to be a huge burden to their budgets.

The SRA's managing director, Simon Heppner, said: ‘There are a wide range of pressures for restaurants to be more sustainable and we aim to show it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive and is instead a simple and achievable goal.

‘Through responding to this challenge restaurants can not only satisfy existing customers and gain new ones, they can also make positive changes for the environment and society and be properly rewarded for their efforts.’

By Luke Walsh at Edie.

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