Category: Waste Reduction
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At the beginning of May, we launched our Food Waste Innovation market map identifying companies building products and services that tackle the 1.3 billion-ton food waste problem. It’s no small obstacle. With roughly one-third of the world’s food going to waste each year, it’s little wonder that entrepreneurs, startups, corporations and, heck, even the government…
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LiveNation, one of the world’s largest concert promoters, announced this week it will ban all single-use plastics at its venues and festivals by 2021. That includes things like plastic straws and food trays, in addition to water bottles. The move is part of a new set of goals outlined by Live Nation’s coalition Green Nation,…
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We were excited when The Loop announced its re-useable packaging program in January of this year, as a number of big name CPG companies like Pepsi, Nestlé and Unilever had hopped on board. Today, The Loop announced that its waste reducing program has now launched here in the U.S., and added Kroger and Walgreens to…
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Yum China this week became the first restaurant company in mainland China to receive the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) label for converting its used cooking oil into sustainable biodiesel. According to a press release, the company launched a pilot of its cooking oil project in 2018 in Chengdu, where all Yum China-owned KFC…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe and get the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. Food Waste Innovation in 2019 Fighting food waste is one of the next important frontiers of foodtech. In the course of just a few years, a question historically left on the periphery of…
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Roughly one third of the world’s food goes to waste each year. It rots on at the bottom of grocery store bins, gets thrown out with unused restaurant inventory, or is hiding in some deep, forgotten corner of your pantry (probably growing fangs). The U.S. alone wastes enough food to fill a 90,000-seat stadium — every…
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Yelp gave a nod to Earth Day this morning by launching a new initiative that rates restaurants’ eco-friendliness factor. With Yelp’s Green Practices initiative, Yelp reviewers can answer questions around a restaurant’s takeout packaging — whether the business offers compostable containers, uses plastic bags, or has discounts for things like bringing your own reusable beverage…
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Starbucks made another move towards investing in green energy today when it announced a partnership with solar company Cypress Creek Renewables. In a post on the coffee giant’s Stories site, Starbucks noted that the two companies, along with U.S. bank, are “teaming up on a portfolio of farms across Texas.” The partnership includes two solar…
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Grocery retailer ALDI announced this morning its plans to transition to more sustainable packaging for all its products. According to a press release, by 2025, the company plans to make 100 percent of its packaging, including plastic packaging, “reusable, recyclable or compostable.” While no effort to reduce packaging waste in this day and age could…
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As someone who often makes a cup of instant coffee out of sheer busyness laziness, this news piqued my interest: Steeped, a Santa Cruz, CA-based startup, has launched a coffee brewing method that combines the speed of an instant brew with the quality of a high-end, single-serve cup o’ joe. At least, what’s what Steeped…
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Whenever I head to the grocery store I can’t leave without buying a bunch of bananas. But I find that a) they all get ripe at exactly the same time, and b) I can never eat them quickly enough. Thankfully this leads to a lot of amazing banana bread, but product waste is a huge problem in…
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Yesterday, the European Parliament voted to ban single-use plastics — like straws, plates, coffee stirrers and lids, to-go containers, and cutlery — by 2021 (h/t The Guardian). The ban will go into effect in all EU member states and possibly the U.K., depending on what happens with Brexit. The European Commission first proposed this ban…
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