Food for thought: recycling service for food waste

Sustainability Matters

December 10, 2020

Food waste recycling is the number one opportunity for businesses to take a bite out of the general waste bin and grow their sustainability credentials. The cost of food waste to the Australian economy is estimated to be around $20 billion each year with 2.2 million tonnes being disposed of by the commercial and industrial sector alone. It’s a surprisingly large amount of wastage, especially given the

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Food for thought: recycling service for food waste

Sustainability Matters

December 10, 2020

Food waste recycling is the number one opportunity for businesses to take a bite out of the general waste bin and grow their sustainability credentials. The cost of food waste to the Australian economy is estimated to be around $20 billion each year with 2.2 million tonnes being disposed of by the commercial and industrial sector alone. It’s a surprisingly large amount of wastage, especially given the

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A Netflix doc wants to fix our food system with capitalism. ‘Gather’ argues that’s how it broke.

Grist News

December 9, 2020

Two new films about tending the earth offer very different world views

Nestlé digs deeper into regenerative ag, puts $3.6B behind net-zero plan

GreenBiz Group

December 7, 2020

Nestlé digs deeper into regenerative ag, puts $3.6B behind net-zero plan Heather Clancy Mon, 12/07/2020 - 02:00 The world’s largest food company, Nestlé, last week said it plans to spend roughly $3.6 billion over the next five years to meet its net-zero by 2050 aspirations. But CEO Mark Schneider took pains to position this investment as one that will be

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Upstart Hazel finds cachet for innovative sachets that extend produce shelf life

GreenBiz Group

November 25, 2020

Upstart Hazel finds cachet for innovative sachets that extend produce shelf life Jesse Klein Wed, 11/25/2020 - 01:30 In 2017, Hazel Technologies was a plucky young startup with enough scientific success to raise $800,000 in seed funding and score a $600,000 development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In late 2020, the company is finding early commercial success in its mission to

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Unilever sets $1.2B sales target for meat and dairy alternatives

GreenBiz Group

November 23, 2020

Unilever sets $1.2B sales target for meat and dairy alternatives Cecilia Keating Mon, 11/23/2020 - 00:30 Unilever has announced plans to dramatically increase sales of plant-based meat and dairy alternatives over the next seven years as part of a new sustainability program designed to shrink the environmental footprint of its food brands. The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant said last week that

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These rare seeds escaped Syria’s war — to help feed the world

Grist News

November 22, 2020

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.

The chef who wants diners to fund regenerative ag

GreenBiz Group

November 20, 2020

The chef who wants diners to fund regenerative ag Jim Giles Fri, 11/20/2020 - 01:30 "We have solutions that are bipartisan and cost the government $0." That was the opening line of a message I received from award-winning chef Anthony Myint, who replied to my request for elevator pitches for president-elect Joe Biden. Myint went on to describe a scalable mechanism for capturing large

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Are animals eating all the human food?

Grist News

November 19, 2020

There's not really a simple prescription to graze our way out of the climate crisis.

AI monitor slashes food waste

Sustainability Matters

November 16, 2020

A Dutch sustainability innovation company has developed a waste-monitoring technology that will allow restaurants, caterers and other companies to drastically decrease food waste. Resulting from a collaboration between zero food waste company Orbisk and Studio Mango industrial design, the Automatic Waste Monitor aims to tackle the 1.3 billion tonnes of food that are wasted globally each year. The food

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