Category: food waste

• FUWA BIOTECH

  

  This company makes natural cleaning products by fermenting discarded pineapple skins leftover from pineapple harvest.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 19, 2024

  Asia, cleaning products, consumer product, enzymatic, food waste, pineapple, pineapple skins, vietnam

  cleaning products, enzymatic cleaning products, natural cleaning products, pineapple, pineapple skins, vietnam

• THOUSAND FELL

  

  This company creates recyclable sneakers out of biodegradable, waste materials and/or recycled materials and has a take-back program to ensure that used sneakers are re-integrated or repurposed or else re-used.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 19, 2024

  coconut waste, Compostable, corn waste, fashion, food waste, new york, plastic waste, recycle, rubber, shoes, sugarcane biomass, take back, upcycling, USA

  compostable materials, corn waste, plastic bottles, recyclable shoes, recycled materials, shoes, takeback

• BIOFASE

  

  This company creates biodegradable and compostable cutlery from leftover avocado pits.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  agricultural waste, Avocado pit, Compostable, compostable tableware, Mexico, plastic alternative, restaurant food waste, upcycling

  agricultural waste, avocado pits, avocado seeds, bioplastic, Compostable, compostable tableware, food waste, plastic alternative

• PAKKA

  

  This company uses waste agricultural biomass to create a range of compostable packaging and compostable tableware solutions.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  agricultural waste, Asia, Compostable, compostable tableware, food upcycling, food waste, india, sugarcane biomass, upcycling

  agricultural waste, Compostable, compostable tableware, India

• RUGSAL TRADING

  

  This company works to encourage Sierra Leone’s citizens to switch from using wood-based charcoal caused by deforestation to a substitute made from coconut scraps.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 17, 2024

  Africa, charcoal, coconut waste, energy, food waste, sierra leone, upcycling

  coconut

• REGRAINED

  

  This company upcycles spent grain from the beer-making process and creates new food products with it.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  October 23, 2023

  beer waste, food upcycling, food waste, North America, upcycling, USA

  beer waste, energy bars, grains

• OUTLANDER MATERIALS

  

  This company utilizes food waste streams, especially from beer brewing, to create a compostable plastic alternative.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  March 16, 2023

  beer waste, Compostable, Europe, food waste, netherlands, new material, plastic alternative