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Hillside Pizza For a Better Planet |
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Better Planet |
Here are some examples of how Hillside Pizza
is helping promote a healthier community!
We support local! Some of our local, organic and natural food suppliers
are: Against the Grain Gourmet,
Albert’s Organics, Appalachian Naturals,
Applegate Farms, Bloody Brook
Farm, Champlain Valley
Milling, Deep
River Snacks, El Jardin Bakery, Green
Field’s Market, Hot Mama’s, and Hillside Gardens (our organic veggies!) Hillside Pizza’s to-go containers and plates are made of renewable resources including bamboo reed and sugarcane fiber. These materials break down quickly in landfills, and better still, can also be a useful addition to any compost pile!
Hillside Pizza’s “plasticware” is not plastic at all! Some of it is made from corn polymers, and is 100% biodegradable. Some is made from potato starches. After two years, this potato cutlery will disintegrate -- and in your compost bin, it will turn into soil in only two months.
The floor you are standing on is all-natural and totally renewable – it is made of cork! Cork comes from the bark of a cork oak tree. It is harvested by stripping the tree of its bark every 9-14 years. The habitat remains undisturbed and the tree is never cut down! Humans have been utilizing cork for its excellent properties for over 100 years, and floors just like this can be found in such prestigious locations as the Library of Congress and the Mayo Clinic.
Hillside Pizza is a proud member of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture,) which links farmers and community in order to enhance the local economy, environmental quality and social well-being of Western Mass.
The mission of Hillside Pizza is to operate our business with sustainable and responsible business practices while benefiting our local community. Since 2001, Hillside has offered a lucrative, fun, and delicious fundraising alternative for schools and community groups in the area.
What’s that you say? It’s Monday night and you forgot to pick up your Take and Bake yesterday? Don’t fret – just stop by Whole Foods in Hadley or Greenfield’s Market in Greenfield for our very own cheese and pesto pizza pies.
Those bright tiles you see in
Hillside's kitchen might look like ordinary vinyl, but they are
actually a "limestone composite." 85% of the product is
limestone, a durable, readily available, abundant natural
resource. The tiles do contain vinyl in the form of
post-industrial recycled vinyl -- that is, old vinyl floors that have
been melted down for reuse.
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You might have
noticed that unlike many other pizzerias, Hillside Pizza supplies
plain, non-printed, unbleached takeout pizza boxes. Because of
this simplicity, our boxes can be recycled like any other cardboard
material!
During the growing
season, many of the vegetables on your pizza come from local organic
farms, including our own! We grow without chemicals or
pesticides, and use minimal machinery. Additionally, by
composting, we turn food waste from the restaurant into soil for our
veggies!
If you seem to find
yourself craving a Hillside Pizza on one of our days off, plan ahead
and get a fresh and custom-made Take and Bake pizza! Our Take and
Bakes come in recyclable plastic bags and will keep your pizza safe
from freezer burn. Each pie comes on an ovenable paperboard tray
-- it will crisp up your pizza nicely in the oven, and can be recycled
when you’re finished!