Casa Nueva is very proud to participate in the global efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle everything we can.  It is important to us to maintain a sustainable restaurant business, which is extremely difficult, so that future generations have a chance to enjoy things as we do today.

RECYCLING! We recycle everything our city will take:  plastics 1 & 2, office paper, newsprint, cardboard, clear, green and brown glass, aluminum and steel.  Wax paperboard isn't accepted, but we collect all of our wax cardboard produce boxes and give them back to our farmers, who will reuse them.  It's difficult for a large, busy restaurant to recycle, but we've been doing it for so long that it just makes sense, and we know we're doing what we can to reduce the amount of trash accumulating in the landfills.

COMPOSTING! Another of our sustainable efforts includes composting.  All of our kitchens and prep areas are outfitted with composting buckets that we pitch fruit and vegetable waste, egg shells and coffee grinds into.  Dedicated community members who wish to add to their own compost piles at home remove the buckets daily, and bring us clean, empty buckets to fill.  After they add to their compost at home, they can manage it and over time, it becomes a nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer to add to their gardens, plants and trees, thereby continuing the process of growth and giving back to the earth.  Who knows, maybe some of the food we get was grown with our compost, and the compost that was used was from food that was grown for us!

COOKING OIL RECYCLING! Bio-diesel?  Greasel?  We use non-hydrogenated, non-GMO, expeller pressed canola oil in much of our cooking, as well as our deep fryers.  Our fryers are emptied, cleaned, and filled with fresh oil twice a week.  Rather than throwing away the discarded oil, we have some more dedicated community members that come buy the oil from us to filter it, clean it, and convert it into biodiesel, by which to run their vehicles on.

One of our paper suppliers (Midwest POS) provides us with receipt paper that is BPA-free.  Here's a certification from Appleton Mill.