Mos Recycles

[Captain Japan]

Japanese Burger Chain Powers Steel Mill with Food Waste
GreenBiz News

TOKYO, Jan. 19, 2005 - Mos Food Services, Inc., a Japanese burger chain with 1,467 stores across the country and 120 stores overseas, is actively promoting the recycling of food waste. The company says it has started recycling food waste and warehouse waste (used packaging material such as cardboard boxes and plastic bags) in the Kanto region (Tokyo and six neighboring prefectures). The food waste includes products that are unsellable due to breakage or damage and a portion of expired food products, and amounted to nearly 0.14% of the total annual food purchases of all chain stores in fiscal 2003....the rest...

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese Moss Burgers Powers Steel Mill with Food Waste
GreenBiz News

TOKYO, Jan. 19, 2005 - Mos Food Services, Inc., a Japanese burger chain ...
...In the Kanto [Tokyo} Region, about 26 tons of food and warehouse waste from Mos Food have been processed at the Chiba Biogas Center operated by Japan Recycling Co. Food waste is recycled into methane gas based on Japan's Food Recycling Law and used as fuel at a steel mill next to the center.
In the Kinki and Chubu regions (western and central Japan), the company has been recycling food waste into animal feed since 2003 in cooperation with Kyoto Prefecture's Yasuda Sangyo Co...

Ok, ok it's Mos not moss Burgers.
Depend on who you want to believe MOS Burger was founder by either the Japanese-American Satoshi Sakurada and MOS means Mountain-Ocean-Sun or it was founded by Mr Mos, an American who was bought out by Japanese ownership. Still it's devilishly difficult to recycle food waste on a mass scale since it has always been a losing proposition. What is worse especially is recycling food waste into animal feed,. which by law has to be pressure-cooked one hour before it can be legally fed to pigs for example.
Bravo Mos Foods!

[ichigo partygirl]

Moss burger is one of the japanese foods i crave the most since ive been home. cant wait to come and eat it again. yum yum....hmm maybe i will start a thread..........

[JpnDude]

I should just walk around the corner from my office here and ask them. That's where the MOS BURGER HQ is located.