MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • June 11, 2023
Sustainability means much more than sourcing more of your food locally, which many Maine restaurants have excelled at for quite some time. Sarah Nichols, the sustainable Maine director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, said that more restaurants should be separating their compostable food waste from the rest of their trash, and that many could do a better job with packaging, specifically the takeout materials they use. Here are three Maine restaurants with standout sustainability programs: Crown Jewel on Great Diamond Island in Casco Bay, which is enacting a new composting program to bring it closer to its zero-waste goals; The Great Impasta in Brunswick, the only restaurant in the state certified by the national Green Restaurant Association; and the newly opened Rosella in Kennebunkport, sister operation of what The New Yorker magazine called the only sustainable sushi restaurant in New York City.