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Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

November 24, 2020

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Eco-friendly products come in all shapes and sizes in 2020. It’s an umbrella term for a number of movements and trends that include carbon labeling, zero waste and regenerative farming/agriculture.

A study from Forager in January 2020 showed that consumers are increasingly looking for foods that reduce their carbon footprint when shopping in the supermarket. The report found that 29% of consumers want to eat food with a lower carbon footprint.  

The “eco-friendliest” layer is zero waste, a movement to close the loop in production. For instance, some of the products featured this month do that by capturing the runoff water from farming to water the plants and the excess pulp as nutrients in the soil, therefore producing no waste.

Here are some of the eco-friendly products to appeal to your eco-friendly customers.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a content producer and assistant digital editor as well as the host of Nation’s Restaurant News’ podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Groups other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

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