Do you love eating out, but does your stomach curl when your leftovers arrive in a Styrofoam container? The restaurant industry is a large consumer of natural resources, including water, fuel, food, disposables, and building materials, and it produces correspondingly large amounts of waste; all of these things require massive amounts of energy to produce, transport, and dispose of.
Fortunately, there are practical and relatively inexpensive ways for any restaurant to become more environmentally friendly, and many restaurants in Boston already have, by obtaining outside verification from the Green Restaurant Association which, one, requires restaurants to obtain 100 points in environmental categories such as water- and energy-use reduction and, two, lists online (dinegreen.com) all the steps each restaurant has taken to become a Certified Green Restaurant.
Anything we can do to decrease natural resource usage and waste production now will help preserve our human habitat in the future. Encourage the restaurants you frequent to make tangible and transparent changes to be more environmentally friendly, for example, by becoming a Certified Green Restaurant.
We, the undersigned, applaud restaurants in Boston that have taken steps to become more environmentally friendly, but we would encourage them and all other restaurants to become greener still! Given the choice we would rather eat at an environmentally-friendly restaurant, especially one that has been verified as environmentally friendly by a third-party organization, like a Certified Green Restaurant.
Restaurants, please consider your customers' wishes: become a greener restaurant in a tangible and transparent way!
Thank you for your consideration.
