Reduce / Reuse / Recycle

August 22, 2002

 

Seibu Department Stores Recycle Food Waste

Keywords: Eco-business / Social Venture Non-manufacturing industry Reduce / Reuse / Recycle 

On June 28 a major department store in Tokyo started marketing organic vegetables, grown using compost from food waste discarded at the store. Seibu Department Stores Ltd.'s Ikebukuro store is offering compost for free to partner farmers and then buys the vegetables they grow with the compost.

The Ikebukuro store disposes of 1,370 metric tonnes of food waste a year, or about 3.5 tonnes a day. Last year, the department store installed seven garbage-processing machines to recycle food waste from tenant restaurants and the employees' cafeteria. This year, the store will add equipment to process food waste from the food floor.

The department store plans to process all food waste generated at the store by fiscal 2003. In 1999, Seibu Department Stores acquired ISO 14001 certification and started taking measures to reduce waste.



Posted: 2002/08/22 06:09:54 AM
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