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Search Results for: Plastic

Keurig Unveils Plastic-Free Coffee Pods, Developed With A Little Help From The Maker of CoffeeB

March 13, 2024 Michael Wolf

If you can’t beat them, join them. And if you’re Delica, that’s precisely what the Swiss-based company did. That’s because today, North American single-serve giant Keurig Dr. Pepper announced that […]

Google Announces Winners of the Single-Use Plastics Challenge

November 22, 2023 Michael Wolf

This week, Google announced the winners of the Single-Use Plastics Challenge, an open-invitation challenge where the company invited startups to present solutions that help reduce plastic waste. The challenge, which […]

Google Wants to Put an End to Single-Use Plastic, So It Put Out a Call For New Ideas

May 23, 2023 Michael Wolf

We all know plastic is bad for the environment, but despite all the videos of plastic bottles and wrappers floating in oceans and piling up in landfills, billions of single-use […]

GaeaStar Wants to Solve The Single-Use Plastic Problem With an Ancient Indian Solution: Clay Cups

April 6, 2023 Michael Wolf

One of the biggest problems of the food and beverage industry is the waste produced by single-use plastics. Because of this, there’s been a movement in the container industry over […]

Cove’s Biodegradable Water Bottle Inches Closer to Market (But Don’t Expect Plastic Waste to Disappear Anytime Soon)

November 8, 2022 Michael Wolf

Is the end of the plastic water bottle finally in sight? According to a story in Bloomberg, one startup’s vision of delivering a fully biodegradable plastic alternative to the water […]

Israeli Company Wants to Create a Greener Future Through Compostable Plastic

May 30, 2022 Allen Weiner

Like many transformative ideas, the genesis behind TIPA, an Israeli company with a novel way to reduce plastics in the environment, came from the need to solve an obvious problem. […]

Researchers Use Bacteria To Transform Plastic Into Edible Protein

November 9, 2021 Camille Bond

In 2018, the equivalent of about 3.5 million dumpster trucks’ worth of plastic waste was produced in the U.S. alone, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The COVID-19 pandemic has […]

Food Tech News: Vanillin Made From Plastic Waste, Plant-Based Pâté, and Strella Biotechnology’s Win

June 21, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

The sun is sweltering, the flowers are in full bloom, and food tech news is coming in hot. In this week’s roundup, we have news on the launch of a […]

Restaurants’ Breakup With Single-Use Plastics Has Begun

April 11, 2021 Jennifer Marston

This is the web version of our weekly Spoon newsletter. Subscribe now to get the latest food tech news delivered direct to your inbox. From monstrous portions to excess packaging, restaurants have […]

How Restaurants Can Get Involved With the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act 2021

April 8, 2021 Jennifer Marston

Recently, federal lawmakers introduced the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act 2021(BFFPPA 2021), which proposes sweeping changes in the U.S. in order to curb our reliance on plastics and in […]

Could DS Smith’s “Greentote” Solve Grocery’s Plastic Bag Problem?

March 1, 2021 Chris Albrecht

My online grocery shopping and curbside pickup with Walmart is pretty delightful except for one thing: all the plastic bags. I’m not sure if it’s corporate policy or what, but […]

Food Tech News: GROW Impact Accelerator 2021 Cohort, US Plastic Pact Sets 2025 Goals

January 23, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

Welcome to the weekend, and the weekly Food Tech News round-up. This week, we gathered news regarding GROW’s 2021 food and ag-tech cohort, the US Plastic Pact’s goals, Sonic’s international […]

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