Category: food upcycling

• UPCIRCLE

  

  This company upcycles natural by-products into vegan beauty products, thereby keeping useful ingredients from landfills.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  April 15, 2025

  agricultural waste, Avocado pit, B corp, beauty, Europe, food upcycling, food waste, olive pits, online marketplace, refill, spent coffee, take back, UK, upcycling

  beauty, coffee, olive pits, refill, skincare, stone fruit pits, takeback, UK, upcycling

• BARNANA

  

  Food upcycling B-corp creating new supply chain by diverting bananas that do no meet export standards away from landfills, thereby creating new revenue streams and reducing waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  B corp, banana, california, food industry, food product, food rescue, food upcycling, food waste, logistics, social enterprise/b corp, surplus agriculture, upcycling, USA, waste supply chain

  banana snack, food product, food upcycling, rescue food, surplus agriculture, surplus food management, surplus supply chain, upcycled food

• RENEWAL MILL

  

  Food upcycling company that utilizes byproducts from other food manufacturing processes and transforms them into high quality ingredients, thereby creating new revenue streams and reducing waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  california, food product, food upcycling, food waste, upcycling, USA

  food upcycling, food waste

• WIZE TEA

  

  This upcycling company rescues coffee leaves that are typically neglected during coffee production and makes coffee-like beverages from it.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  agricultural waste, Canada, coffee leaf, food product, food upcycling, food waste, social enterprise/b corp, upcycling, waste supply chain

  coffee leaf tea, discarded coffee leaves, tea

• GOODR

  

  This company is a surplus food management platform that leverages blockchain technology to connect businesses with surplus food with people in need, thereby reducing food waste and combating hunger.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  B corp, digital, digital platform, food rescue, food upcycling, food waste, georgia, logistics, reduce, USA, waste infrastructure, waste supply chain

  bcorp, digital platform, excess food supply chain, food insecurity, surplus food distribution system, surplus food management

• OCHIS

  

  This company creates beautiful eyewear designs spent coffee grounds collected from cafes in Ukraine.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 19, 2024

  biopolymers, Compostable, Europe, eyewear, flax, food upcycling, new material, plastic alternative, spent coffee, ukraine, upcycling, waste infrastructure, waste supply chain

  coffee, Compostable, eyewear, spent coffee, ukraine

• ICTYOS

  

  This company upcycles fish skin into a leather-like material for luxury goods.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 18, 2024

  Europe, fish skins, food upcycling, france, leather, luxury fashion, new material, restaurant food waste, upcycling

  fish skin, leather, luxury fashion, restaurant waste, upcycling

• 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

• 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