Stop Food Waste: Redistribution and Upcycling Opportunities
NRDC
APRIL 24, 2024
NRDC and our partners at Drexel Food Lab are raising awareness about expanded liability protections and upcycling opportunities for food businesses.
WASTE -> UPCYCLING -> PROFITS
Cleannovate
JULY 9, 2023
Let me start with a disclaimer. This newsletter is all about sharing innovative ideas on circular businesses. Some of these ideas might just be concepts waiting for someone to put their mind and soul into them to see them through. But this particular one is an idea that excites me. So it’s not just a […]
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Opportunities for upcycling abound with food waste pervasive across the industry
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 20, 2023
Waste occurs throughout the supply chain. goes uneaten, and according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 95% of all food waste ends up in landfills, causing methane emissions during decomposition. Read the full story at Nutritional Outlook. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, 40% of all food in the U.S.
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Salt & Straw’s new menu reduces food waste with upcycled ingredients
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 29, 2023
Reducing food waste. Okay, well, maybe not, but when you are digging into some of Salt & Straw’s newest flavors, you can enjoy the deliciousness all the more knowing that you’re helping fight food waste in the U.S., What tastes just as good as gourmet ice cream?
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From trash to table: will upcycled food save the planet?
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 25, 2024
Pulp Pantry, along with other food brands such as Renewal Mill, Climate Candy, Upcycled Foods, Rind and Barnana, are part of a new crop of businesses gaining popularity for “upcycling” foods created from surplus food, edible food waste and byproducts.
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Maximizing taste, minimizing waste: 14 upcycled vegan food brands reducing food waste
Environmental News Bits
MAY 2, 2022
As someone passionate about fighting food waste, upcycled food gives me so much hope. An astounding one-third of all the world’s food is wasted, which amounts to $1 trillion in losses.
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Upcycled innovation accelerating
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 14, 2022
The Upcycled Food Association launched its Upcycled Certification mark last June. Read the full story in Food Business News.
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Upcycled food launches leap as concerns around waste grow: report
Environmental News Bits
JULY 15, 2022
Launches of food and beverages containing upcycled ingredients saw a 122% compound annual growth rate in the five years ending third-quarter 2021, according to a report from Innova Market Insights. Nearly … Continue reading Upcycled food launches leap as concerns around waste grow: report.
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12 beauty brands that upcycle food waste into sustainable skincare options
Environmental News Bits
MAY 30, 2023
There is a lot more food waste than you might think: A 2011 report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stated that approximately one-third, or around 1.3 billion tonnes, of food production worldwide ends up as waste.
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Is upcycling the answer to America’s food waste problem?
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Joining the Food For Thought podcast this week is Pulp Pantry’s Kaitlin Mogentale here to talk about the upcycling food movement and how the process of taking one company’s food waste can turn into another company’s product gold. Read the full story at Food Processing. Read more →
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‘Upcycling’ promises to turn food waste into your next meal
Environmental News Bits
JULY 2, 2021
Enter “upcycling.” Or take a swig of juice with “reprocessed” ingredients made from other food byproducts? Without the right marketing, these don’t sound like the most appetizing options. That’s the relatively recent term for the age-old… Read more →
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105 Upcycled Food Association CEO: ‘We want an upcycled product in every aisle of every grocery store’
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 13, 2022
Upcycled food products (made from ingredients that would otherwise not have gone to human consumption) are the most straightforward and scalable path to reducing and preventing food waste, says Upcycled Food Association CEO Turner Wyatt. Read the full story at Food Navigator USA.
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11 PRACTICAL AGROWASTE UPCYCLING OPPORTUNITIES
Cleannovate
JUNE 20, 2023
What better way to grow personal, communal and national wealth than converting waste into valuable products. That’s the gyst of circular economy – and more precisely waste valorization. And that’s what this article is about. Can we derive value from agricultural […]
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GFI identifies untapped upcycling opportunities
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Upcycling agricultural waste into food ingredients and alternative protein inputs will be necessary to help feed the world’s growing population, according to a new report from the Good Food Institute (GFI). Read the full story at Food Business News.
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Rheaply Acquires Materials Marketplace, Making It Largest Platform for Circularity in Physical Assets
Environment + Energy Leader
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Rheaply will use the Materials Marketplace's network of 2,200 partners and expertise in the upcycling of building materials, improving the company's efforts to divert building waste from landfills.
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Misfits Market and Upcycled Food Association host repurposed food challenge offering nationwide distribution for winning entrepreneur
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Today, on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, Misfits Market and the Upcycled Food Association announced they are launching The Upcycling Challenge, a contest for food entrepreneurs to create an innovative, sustainable, and delicious food product that repurposes excess food or waste.
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75 Kroger reveals 2 upcycling startups to receive funding
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Upcycled food is the next frontier in recovering and repurposing food that may otherwise go to landfills, encouraging the reintroduction and reuse of food items into the supply chain. In an effort to advance the upcycled food industry, The Kroger Co. Read the full story at Progressive Grocer.
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Reducing food waste good for profit and planet
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 14, 2023
A panel of food waste and upcycling experts shared some sobering numbers during a panel discussion at IFT FIRST, held July 16-19, including that up to 25% of produce grown on farms globally goes unused. Read the full story at Baking Business.
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Closed-loop additive manufacturing fueled by upcycled plastic
Environmental News Bits
JULY 8, 2022
Researchers have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The readily adoptable, scalable method introduces a closed-loop strategy that could globally reduce plastic waste and cut carbon emissions tied to plastic production.
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This outdoor furniture line uses upcycled rice hulls that outperform wood
Inhabitant
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
The Bowen Collection is a classically framed table with a twist — its top surface material is made using an ultra-durable blend of upcycled rice hulls that would have otherwise gone to waste.
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101 Beyond bioplastics: Agricultural waste streams becoming next-gen packaging materials
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 25, 2023
By upcycling agricultural waste, these three startups are replacing plastic with a new wave of packaging materials that ‘make no compromises along the supply chain.’ Read the full story at Sustainable Brands.
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75 Co-branding collaboration: CRUST reveals new model to help big food firms benefit from upcycling
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 22, 2022
Singapore upcycling products firm CRUST has revealed a new collaborative upcycling business model of working with big food and beverage brands to develop new co-branded products from their existing food waste. Read the full story at Food Navigator Asia.
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81 Upcycled ingredient development on the upswing
Environmental News Bits
MAY 15, 2023
A buzzword among food formulators today is upcycling. It’s a concept gaining traction among a growing number of consumers and food manufacturers interested in reducing food waste through a circular economy. Read the full story from Food Business News.
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Upcycled ingredients help processors advance sustainability efforts
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 22, 2023
Pet food and treat processors have been using upcycled ingredients — namely in the form of rendered meat byproducts — before it was even a coined term.
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Upcycled food revolution: Transforming surpluses of whey, barley, fruit & vegetables into value-added products
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 3, 2021
Upcycling is now “the new recycling,” presenting an attractive opportunity for businesses to curb food waste and loss, while scaling a host of new value-added F&B products from these sidestreams. Read the full story at Food Ingredients First.
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The future of menus includes upcycled ingredients
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 14, 2023
New York, envision … Continue reading The future of menus includes upcycled ingredients Not just any vegetables, but the plants that typically never leave the field. That’s what brothers Jeremy and Adam Kaye, co-founders of The Spare Food Co.,
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Efforts underway to make upcycled grains more affordable
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 20, 2023
Upcycling brewers’ spent grains adds protein and fiber to food and beverage products. The practice has a sustainability benefit, too, in that it reduces food waste. Read the full story at Food Business News. Yet cost remains an issue.
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Upcycling gains traction as key sustainability initiative
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 24, 2022
Consumers consistently rank sustainability as a top motivator for dining and shopping decisions, and upcycled ingredients are leading the way. Read the full story at The Food Institute.
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75 Behind Do Good Foods’ mission to lower livestock emissions through upcycling
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 7, 2023
Several years later, the brothers … Continue reading Behind Do Good Foods’ mission to lower livestock emissions through upcycling They would routinely take food leftovers and feed them to their chickens, pigs and pets, which they said helped the animals grow strong.
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74 Upcycling food ‘is really one of the biggest opportunities facing the food industry’
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 26, 2023
Upcycling food, or turning would-be wasted byproducts from one product into something delicious and nutritious for people, has emerged as one of the hottest trends in food and beverage in recent years with the market projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.6% Read the full story from Food Navigator USA.
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40 Fighting food waste: Finnish foodtech company is innovating to upcycle seafood side streams
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 5, 2024
Foodtech company Hailia, is taking a ‘waste not want not’ approach to seafood production by utilising more of every fish caught and repurposing what might once have been cast off. Read the full story at Food Navigator Europe.
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The US has tons of leftover food. Upcycling turns would-be trash into ice cream and pizza
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 23, 2023
Upcycling turns would-be trash into ice cream and pizza The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Oregon-based Salt & Straw uses the whey leftover from yogurt makers in upstate New York to make his lemon curd flavor. For chocolate barley milk, … Continue reading The US has tons of leftover food.
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Upcycling BSG waste to produce value-added byproducts
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 28, 2023
Read the full story at Food Engineering. Green Cell Technologies (GCT) and RWH Holdings (RWH) have worked with several global brewers over a period of eight years to understand the challenges around what to do with their leftovers—brewers spent grain (BSG) and brewers spent yeast (BSY)—and the answer, as it would happen, is disrupt it.
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Coffee biorefinery opened in Denmark to upcycle coffee grounds
Environmental News Bits
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Kaffe Bueno, a new startup, has opened a coffee biorefinery in Rødovre, Denmark to develop this oil into food … Continue reading Coffee biorefinery opened in Denmark to upcycle coffee grounds
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Upcycled food takes center stage at Expo West
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 17, 2022
The upcycled food movement is gaining momentum as product developers create new uses for previously overlooked ingredients. Read the full story in Food Business News. Exhibitors at Natural Products Expo West sampled nutritious food and beverages formulated with avocado seeds, celery scraps, orange peels and other landfill-bound leftovers.
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81 Nestle exploring upcycled, low-carbon fertilizer
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 6, 2023
The trial program will examine how the cocoa-based fertilizer affects wheat crop production, soil health and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over a … Continue reading Nestle exploring upcycled, low-carbon fertilizer
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Del Monte Foods leans into upcycled food movement with canned vegetable certification
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Del Monte Foods has announced what it said is the industry’s first canned vegetable product to be certified by the Upcycled Food Association under its new upcycled certification program.
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Closed-loop additive manufacturing fueled by upcycled plastic
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 30, 2022
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing.
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Government supports efforts to reduce food waste and enhance sustainability
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 10, 2022
to expand their operations in food waste reduction that upcycles surplus and unsaleable fruits and vegetables from growers, processors and retailers into dried, plant-based powders and… Read more →
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Upcycling vegetable by-products into fibre-rich ingredients for ‘juicier’ burgers: ‘We can make processed food healthier and more sustainable’
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 23, 2022
New vegan products made with upcycled ‘imperfect’ vegetables are being developed by researchers in Europe. Read the full story at Food Navigator.
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Newly launched Do Good Foods raises $169M to turn food waste into animal feed
Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Do Good Foods, a newly launched company formed to turn upcycled food waste into feed for animals intended for human consumption, has started operations backed by $169 million from asset manager Nuveen. Read the full story from Food Dive.
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Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Read the full story from Northwestern University. Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Read more →
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72 Imperfect Foods aims for sustainability-minded drinkers with wine partnership
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 30, 2023
In collaboration with beverage platform Drinks, the upcycled food and beverage retailer is selling wine that would have gone to waste or is produced with eco-friendly practices. Read the full story at Food Dive.
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Biotrend Energy to Use Honeywell Technology in Plastics Recycling Factory
Environment + Energy Leader
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Biotrend Energy will use Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology in its planned plastics recycling factory in Turkey. The post Biotrend Energy to Use Honeywell Technology in Plastics Recycling Factory appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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