Basil Tree’s Earth Friendly Practices
Basil Tree Catering is working on many levels to reduce waste and work towards environmental sustainability. Unfortunately drop-off catering uses a lot of disposable paper goods but we are working towards reducing this waste and making changes throughout our operations. Below are some of the changes we have made. As always, we are open to suggestions on how to do an even better job at protecting our environment.
- 100% of our paper goods are now earth friendly
- Plates are made from sugar cane waste
- Cutlery, clear cups and clear containers are made from corn products purchased from a non-profit supporting environmental sustainability http://www.worldcentric.org/
- Napkins are from 100% recycled paper (60% post consumer)
- Coffee cups are lined with vegetable product and are compostable. Purchased from a non-profit that employs and provides services for the visually impaired. http://clovernook.org/
- We have switched over our lighting to florescent bulbs
- Collect all kitchen compostables to be picked up by Save that Stuff http://www.savethatstuff.com/ to be shipped to farms to be made into fertilizer for local landscapers. We cut our garbage production by more than half.
- Our cooking oil is recycled into bio-fuel
- We combine delivery trips and use smaller vans whenever possible
- Use staple-less staplers; no wasted staples and paper in the recycle bins is “cleaner”
- Making pick up of used platters for sterilization and re-use more streamlined
- We deliver a bin with your delivery marked for pick-up
- You scrape the food off and leave all platters, bowls, lids and serving utensils in the bin for us to pick up either same day or next day
- Just let us know if you would like to set that up for your delivery
- We work with Somerville Local First, an organization which supports locally owned businesses and strives for sustainability and environmental responsibility. http://www.somervillelocalfirst.org
- Supporting local environmental initiatives with donations:
- We are working with our suppliers to increase our use of local products and organic products
