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Eco on the Go
These trucks are lean, mean, green machines
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It's not easy being green, especially for a restaurant on wheels. But a handful of trucks make it look simple.
Some start small: The Sweets Truck serves all of its baked goods--including Cookie Casa's chocolate fudge bars or Southern Girls Desserts' cupcake shooters--in bags made from recycled materials and with compostable flatware.
Others focus on an eco-conscious menu, like the new PattyWagon, which makes sliders with organic, hormone-free, grass-fed beef from Idaho.
In addition to using organic vegetables and humanely raised meats, Frysmith runs on a combination of diesel fuel and filtered vegetable oil. That means the grease those Kennebec potatoes were cooked in eventually powers the truck's engine.
But the gold standard for sustainability goes to Green Truck (pictured), which has been rolling the streets since before mobile kitchens were cool.
Here you'll find compostable serving ware, but no plastic bottles or packaging--and the frying oil is used as biofuel. Even the commissary, where storage and prep take place, is solar-powered.
And to make that all-veggie Trucker Burger with homemade vegan Thousand Island easier to find, a Green Truck will be permanently parked on the Venice Boardwalk beginning later this month.
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