Ecology and sustainability

In all our cafés:

•  we only use fair-trade organic coffee and cocoa with organic ingredients from Westhoff.
•  you get fair trade tea in organic quality from Sonnentor.
•  all milk and coffee products (cappuccino, latte macchiato etc.) are made with organic milk from Berchtesgadener Land, organic soya drink or organic oat drink.
•  We also use vegan organic chai syrup from traditional production by Black Sense Manufaktur from Germany.

Are organic products too expensive? That's a question of perspective. Because organic products do not harm our environment. They mean less pesticides on our plates, more diversity in agriculture, regional jobs and a sustainable world for future generations. We attach great importance to this and are also certified organic.

In the Cafeteria & Mensa Gießberg you will find, in addition to the organic range for our cafés:

• Fairtrade chocolate bars from Gepa (confectionery) to sweeten your day.

• You will find the following organic ingredients in our lunch menus:

  • Organic beef
  • Organic pasta
  • Organic lentil and millet balls
  • Organic sunflower mince

• We get organic drinks from fritz-kola in Hamburg, which supplies us with apple juice spritzer, rhubarb spritzer and grape juice spritzer for our vending machines and fridges.

• We are also supplied with the organic drink Schimmele from Ruppaner.

In the Cafeteria & Mensa an der HTWG you will find, in addition to the organic range for our cafés:

• Fairtrade chocolate bars from Gepa (confectionery) to sweeten your day.

• veganes Bio-Eis von Froobie aus Konstanz immer laktosefrei und ohne jegliche Geschmacksverstärker. vegan organic ice cream from Froobie aus Konstanz, always lactose-free and without any flavour enhancers.

• You will find the following organic ingredients in our lunch menus:

  • Organic beef
  • Organic pasta
  • Organic lentil and millet balls
  • Organic sunflower mince

• We get organic drinks from fritz-kola aus Hamburg, which supplies us with apple juice spritzer, rhubarb spritzer and grape juice spritzer for our vending machines and fridges.

• We are also supplied with the organic drink Schimmele from Ruppaner.

In the Cafeteria & Mensa in Weingarten you will find, in addition to the organic range for our cafés:

• Fairtrade chocolate bars from Gepa (confectionery) to sweeten your day.

• You will find the following organic ingredients in our lunch menus:

  • Organic beef
  • Organic pasta
  • Organic lentil and millet balls
  • Organic sunflower mince

• We get organic drinks from fritz-kola aus Hamburg, which supplies us with apple juice spritzer, rhubarb spritzer and grape juice spritzer for our vending machines and fridges.

In the Mensa Ravensburg you will find, in addition to the organic range for our cafés:

• You will find the following organic ingredients in our lunch menus:

  • Organic beef
  • Organic pasta
  • Organic lentil and millet balls
  • Organic sunflower mince

• We get organic drinks from fritz-kola aus Hamburg, which supplies us with apple juice spritzer, rhubarb spritzer and grape juice spritzer for our vending machines and fridges.

In the Mensa Fallenbrunnen you will find, in addition to the organic range for our cafés:

• You will find the following organic ingredients in our lunch menus:

  • Organic beef
  • Organic lentil and millet balls
  • Organic sunflower mince

• We get organic drinks from fritz-kola aus Hamburg, which supplies us with apple juice spritzer, rhubarb spritzer and grape juice spritzer for our vending machines and fridges.

In our food offer sustainability and a most appropriate animal husbandry are important to us.

For dishes marked with a yellow star in the menu,

• with turkey meat we process products that originate from regional and responsible breeding (Klosterhof Ostrach/Gut Neuhof)

• with beef we only use organic products from Bioland.

• with pork comes the product from regional and responsible ornamental breeding from our distributors Buchmann and Otto Müller.

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• Since 2018, we no longer use palm oil in our deep fry, only rape oil from Europe
• We mainly use fish from sustainable fisheries (Deutsche See, www.deutschesee.de)
• We buy pasta mainly in organic quality.

Animal welfare is a topic that Seezeit has been dealing with intensively for several years.

We obtain fresh chicken meat exclusively from the region. Our university catering is always in direct contact with the suppliers and also knows the fattening farms. We are in close exchange with our suppliers in order to successively raise the standards for better animal husbandry. The current criteria that apply to chicken fattening can be found under the "Food" tab.

For convenience products and cold cuts made from poultry meat, we also want to break new ground in the future. We want to reduce the proportion of these products and offer regional (fresh) products from responsible fattening wherever possible. At the same time, we believe we have a responsibility to commit ourselves to meeting certain requirements for convenience products. That's why we participate in the European broiler initiative.

What exactly does this mean?

The initiative

Around 30 European NGOs, including the Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Environment, ProVeg International and Greenpeace, have joined forces to define minimum requirements for European chicken fattening.

The problem

Today, animals are bred to gain weight extremely quickly. Whereas in 1957, for example, a chicken gained 0.9 kg in 56 days, since 2005 it has gained 4.2 kg in the same time! In addition, there is the type of husbandry: up to 26 animals live on one square meter, there is often no natural light and no employment opportunities for the animals. Diseases and injuries are programmed, bone deformations, foot pad and skin inflammations as well as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are the consequence of such a husbandry, as well as the use of antibiotics.

The goal

The goal of the broiler chicken initiative is to define minimum requirements for chicken fattening and to alleviate the problems mentioned above. The companies supporting the initiative commit to implementing below-mentioned criteria for all chicken meat products by 2026 at the latest.

Specifically, this means:

• Space: max. 20 animals per square meter
• Limitation of overbreeding
• at least 50 lux of daylight
• 2 meters of perches per 1,000 birds
• Picking possibilities

Furthermore applies:

• Animal welfare law: Compliance with European animal welfare law irrespective of the country of production
• no caging, as it is still practiced in some European countries
• Stunning before slaughter: by means of gases where stunning is hardly perceived or two-stage CO2 stunning or electrical stunning
• Third party controls and annual reporting

For more information, visit www.masthuhn-initiative.de

Die Seezeit Mensa Gießberg wurde 2024 von PETA Deutschland e.V. mit 3 von 5 Sternen als eine der vegan-freundlichsten Mensen Deutschlands ausgezeichnet.

Bereits 2023 wurde die Mensa HTWG von PETA Deutschland e.V. mit 2 von 5 Sternen als eine der vegan-freundlichsten Mensen Deutschlands ausgezeichnet.

Damit möchte PETA Deutschland e.V. nicht nur das Angebot an veganen Gerichten würdigen, sondern auch das Engagement für eine nachhaltige und ethisch verantwortungsvolle Hochschulgastronomie. Die Mensen zeigen damit laut PETA, dass Aspekte wie Ernährungsphysiologie, ökologische Verträglichkeit, soziale Gerechtigkeit und Tierschutz in den täglichen Ablauf einer Mensa integriert werden können. Die Bewertung würdigt insbesondere, dass Studierende und Hochschulmitarbeiter/innen in der Mensen jederzeit die Möglichkeit haben, sich tierleidfrei zu ernähren.

Weitere Informationen zu diesem Ranking und anderen veganen Initiativen finden Sie im Artikel von PETA unter diesem Link.

Seezeit is supporting the HTWG's Open Innovation Lab (OIL) with its project, which is taking part in the global "Precious Plastic" initiative. The aim is to process plastic waste into furniture for the campus.

However, this requires a lot of plastic waste. For the production of 15 chairs, for example, 450 kilograms of plastic waste must be collected, which is a challenge in itself. Seezeit supports the project in collecting plastic waste and supplies OIL with the plastic waste from the Weingarten, Ravensburg, Fallenbrunnen, Gießberg and HTWG canteens so that it can start a new life as campus furniture.

For more information or to find out how you can get involved, read the article on the Precious Plastic project or visit the HTWG Open Innovation Lab website.

We participate in the RECUP and REBOWL returnable deposit systems in all our catering facilities.

And this is how it works:
RECUP: You get your hot drink from us in the RECUP and deposit a €1 deposit for it. If you return the cup to us or to a participating RECUP partner, you will get the deposit back.
 

Lids for the cup can be purchased from us for 1.30 € for personal use (not included in the deposit system). We have different colors and imprints in our assortment.

REBOWL: Take-away food is available in the REBOWL. For the bowl and the corresponding lid you deposit 5 €. If you return the bowl including the lid to us or to a participating REBOWL partner, you will receive the deposit back.

• Our kitchen teams do not produce most of the food at once, but produce during the lunch time. This allows us to react directly to the current demand.
• We can mostly reuse overproduction, provided that it was not in the counter yet and the product is suitable for it.
• We pass collected food leftovers from the counter and from the plate as well as used fat to the company BRV. It has its own biogas plant, which is also fired with our organic waste. From this, electricity and gas are generated. From the old grease fuel is produced.