An Official Green Caterer
We strongly believe that by balancing environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity, we sustain and improve the health of our planet, the viability of our business, and the quality of life for our communities, future generations and ourselves.
Hannibal's Catering & Events has a great appreciation for all aspects of nature and our environment. we will do anything possible to continue to protect and enhance our natural resources.
BERC is state recognized that has set standards for restaurant & caterers to become more environmentally 
responsible. The Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC) has recognized Hannibal’s Catering as one of the Sacramento Sustainable Businesses for our commitment to the sustainability of our community. We are proud to be the only off-premise catering company being recognized. See our certification at The Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC) website: http://sacramento-sustainable-business.org.
Hannibal’s was evaluated on numerous criteria in which we earned points towards our certifications.
- Energy
- Sustainable food
- Energy
- Waste reduction
- Recycling
- Disposable products
- Chemical and pollution reduction
- Water efficiency
In addition, we are also a “Green Power Partner” by SMUD for supporting the development of renewable energy though SMUD’s greenery program. As a certified sustainable business in Sacramento, Hannibal’s Catering is actively finding ways to be more efficient in saving our environment and cost savings by recycling and reducing waste in our commercial kitchen. More than half of our daily kitchen waste came from vegetables trims and fruits rinds. In the summer months, during the peak of the fruit season, our kitchen would generate more than a hundred gallon of leftover vegetables and fruit rinds on a daily basis.
As part of the solution, Hannibal’s Catering is turning to compose and “Garbage Enzyme” to make lemonade out of lemons. (See direction and photo on our blog on our website) Creating compose for our very own garden in our one acre backyard, to grow organic herbs, vegetables and flowers for our catering service.
The second solution is turning it to enzyme. Garbage Enzyme is a complex solution produced by fermentation of fresh left over kitchen waste (fruits and vegetables), sugar (brown sugar, jiggery or molasses sugar) and water. It is dark brown and has a strong sweet sour fermented scent. Garbage enzyme is a multipurpose cleaning liquid and its applications covers detergent for mopping floors in our kitchen floor, sanitizing equipments in our warehouse without the use of environmental unfriendly chemicals.
We have learned many other ways of being green thru BERC which provide us with ongoing trainings and assistances during our company continue growth. Below are the plans that are in place now:
- Being green by composting leftovers fruits and vegetables for our own herbs & vegetables garden. We are also proud to mention that our organic garden produces enough fresh herbs and edibles flowers for all our kitchen needs this summer.
- We encourage our clients to place catering orders on our user friendly online ordering system to reduce paper usage without the need to print countless copies of invoices.
- Print our promotional material and invoices on paper made with 100% post-consumer recycled content as well as utilizing e-marketing to reduce paper usage. (See our catering menu)
- Recycle all cardboards and paper products.
- Buy products in returnable, reusable or recyclable containers.
- Donate excess non-perishable foods to food banks and shelters.
- Using food items that are in season and locally grown fresh produce.
- We always provide our clients an option to use environmental friendly products like biodegradable disposable wares for all catered events.
- We always use reusable catering bowls, trays, baskets and equipments on all our catering events and drop offs – even though it costs us a lot more as we have to return to pick up, wash and restock our equipments.
- Always utilizing “green” cleaning products in our commercial kitchen.
