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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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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Grist News
December 9, 2020
Two new films about tending the earth offer very different world views
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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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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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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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.
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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Grist News
November 19, 2020
There's not really a simple prescription to graze our way out of the climate crisis.
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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