Category: Waste Reduction
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Sustainable packaging company TemperPack has raised a $31 million Series C round, according to AgFunder News. The round was led by Wheatsheaf Group with participation from existing investors, and brings TemperPack’s total funding to roughly $78 million. TemperPack’s main mission is to change the packaging industry by reducing our reliance on non-sustainable materials used to…
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Vitamix is the latest appliance-maker to address the issue of food waste in the consumer kitchen. The company today announced the launch of its Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50, a device that turns food scraps into additives for soil consumers can then use in their gardens. The device itself is compact enough to fit on a kitchen…
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Spirits company Diageo, best known for the Johnnie Walker, Guinness, and Smirnoff brands, announced this week that it’s created the world’s first plastic-free, paper-based bottle. Along with Monday’s announcement, Diageo also said it has partnered with venture management firm Pilot Lite to launch a sustainable packaging tech company called Puplex Limited. First, the bottle. Puplex…
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Singapore Food Bowl, a food-focused startup program backed by AgFunder’s GROW accelerator, today announced the 12 startups chosen for its first-ever cohort. While those companies vary in terms of what they do and offer, all of them are working towards the same underlying goal: to build a more sustainable food system that’s more decentralized and…
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Amazon announced today the launch of The Climate Pledge Fund, which will use an initial $2 billion in funding to back clean technology companies including those in the food and agriculture space. The fund is part of the broader Climate Pledge, an initiative founded by Amazon and Global Optimism last year to achieve net zero…
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Clean Crop Technologies announced this week that it has raised $2.75 million in Seed funding for its crop loss prevention tool. The round was led by Prime Impact Fund with participation from Factor[e] Ventures, Innova Memphis, the Syndicate Fund and the Alchemy Fund. Clean Crop Technologies actually seems pretty cool. Dubbed High Voltage Atmospheric Cold…
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Apeel, the startup that makes a natural coating to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, announced today via a release emailed to The Spoon that it had raised $250 million in fresh financing. The round was led by GIC with participation from Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, Tao Capital Partners and Rock Creek…
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Ecoinno, a Hong Kong-based company making sustainable packaging from plant fibers, has raised $6 million in Series A1 funding from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs and Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund (h/t South China Morning Post). This brings the startup’s total funding to $8.8 million. Founded in 2015, Ecoinno uses a patented technology to make a sustainable…
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Unpopped popcorn kernels from movie theaters. Pre-wrapped cheese plates for airline passengers. These are just a few of the unexpected food resources that, due to social distancing recommendations, are going to waste during the coronavirus pandemic. True, reducing food waste might not be one of the top-of-mind priorities right now for many of us, including…
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This weekend I went to my favorite neighborhood coffee shop and, just like always, reflexively brought along my takeaway mug. But when I got there I saw the signs that — duh — coffee shops aren’t using takeaway mugs anymore in an attempt to cut down on potential contamination. So I got my coffee in…
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“Hold on, I have to get my credit card.” Jasmine Crowe, CEO of Goodr, was grocery shopping in the middle of our call earlier today. She was at the store not stocking up her own pantry but buying grocery staples for one of the dozens of families that are using Goodr’s expanded program to get…
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