Waterhouse and Acorn House restaurants are committed to efficient waste management and follow a policy of ‘Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and, where no alternatives exist, Recycle’.

Examples include the refusal to accept any packaging on fruit and vegetables, the reduction of meat and poultry packaging to an absolute minimum, the reuse of non-acidic food waste in the wormeries to produce high quality fertizilizer and the recycling of all wine bottles.

 

 

 

 

 

Organic Waste Recycling

Working with London Community Recycling Network, Shoreditch Trust has developed a pioneering approach to reducing, reusing and recycling waste which includes the development of a local organic waste processing initiative. Organic waste from Waterhouse Restaurant, businesses and resident kitchens is collected and processed through a macerator dryer machine. The processing cycle takes six hours and at the end of this cycle the food waste has been compacted to a third of its original size and transformed into a dried, granular material. This dried quality means the waste can be left on site for longer durations without smelling, reducing the need for regular waste collections.