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Founded in 1990, The Green Restaurant Association, an international nonprofit organization, has pioneered the Green Restaurant® movement as the leading voice within the industry, encouraging restaurants to green their operations using transparent, science-based certification standards. With its turnkey certification system, the GRA has made it accessible for thousands of restaurants to become more environmentally sustainable in Energy, Water, Waste, Food, Chemicals, Disposables, & Building.

McCarthy Dining Commons has been certified as a 3 Star Certified Green Restaurant® by the Green Restaurant Association (GRA), a national nonprofit organization helping restaurants and caterers become more environmentally sustainable since 1990. The GRA has the largest database of green solutions in the world for the restaurant and catering industry. Our sustainability steps have been measured against the GRA’s science-based certification standards in energy, water, waste, disposables, chemicals, and food. We have taken 65 environmental steps to earn 298.06 GreenPoints™