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Episcopal High School Becomes a Three Star Certified Green Restaurant
Dining services receives recognition for being an environmentally sustainable restaurant.
Episcopal High School was recently certified as a 3 Star Certified Green Restaurant® by the Green Restaurant Association (GRA), a national nonprofit organization helping restaurants to become more environmentally sustainable. Receiving 187.57 GreenPoints™ on the GRA's rigorous certification scale and having implemented 85 environmental steps, Episcopal High School has gone 87.57% above and beyond the minimum requirements necessary for Certification.
Restaurants generate over 300 million tons of garbage every year. We're proud to reduce that volume by recycling. Episcopal High School recycles everything commercially possible in Alexandria. Episcopal High School uses no polystyrene foam (aka Styrofoam). To become a Certified Green Restaurant®, Episcopal High School implemented 85 steps in Six Environmental Categories: Energy, Water, Waste, Food, Disposables, and Chemicals.
About the Green Restaurant Association
The Green Restaurant Association is a national non-profit organization that provides the only official
Certified Green Restaurant® mark in the country. For 23 years, the GRA has pioneered the Green
Restaurant® movement and has been the leading voice within the industry encouraging restaurants
to listen to consumer demand and green their operations using transparent, science-based
certification standards. With their turnkey certification system, the GRA has made it easy for
thousands of restaurants to become more environmentally sustainable in a profitable manner. The
GRA is endorsed by scores of national environmental organizations such as NRDC, and esteemed
trade organizations including the New York State Restaurant Association, Orange County Restaurant
Association, and America Public Garden Association. The GRA is also an Energy Star partner. In 2010,
CitySearch announced the GRA as their official Green Restaurant® listing partner. The GRA has been
featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News, NPR, and in The New York Times, and The Washington Post. For
more information visit www.dinegreen.com.
