Environmental News Bits

JUNE 29, 2023

Reducing food waste. Okay, well, maybe not, but when you are digging into some of Salt & Straw’s newest flavors, you can enjoy the deliciousness all the more knowing that you’re helping fight food waste in the U.S., What tastes just as good as gourmet ice cream?

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Cleannovate

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Plastics generate interest because they are easy to make but very difficult to degrade leading to a plastic solid waste catastrophe. Most plastics are a by-product of petroleum refining, which make their presence a guarantee as long as we use fossil fuels.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 2, 2022

As someone passionate about fighting food waste, upcycled food gives me so much hope. An astounding one-third of all the world’s food is wasted, which amounts to $1 trillion in losses.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 14, 2022

The Upcycled Food Association launched its Upcycled Certification mark last June. Read the full story in Food Business News.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 15, 2022

Launches of food and beverages containing upcycled ingredients saw a 122% compound annual growth rate in the five years ending third-quarter 2021, according to a report from Innova Market Insights. Nearly … Continue reading Upcycled food launches leap as concerns around waste grow: report.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Joining the Food For Thought podcast this week is Pulp Pantry’s Kaitlin Mogentale here to talk about the upcycling food movement and how the process of taking one company’s food waste can turn into another company’s product gold. Read the full story at Food Processing. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 25, 2024

Pulp Pantry, along with other food brands such as Renewal Mill, Climate Candy, Upcycled Foods, Rind and Barnana, are part of a new crop of businesses gaining popularity for “upcycling” foods created from surplus food, edible food waste and byproducts.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 30, 2023

There is a lot more food waste than you might think: A 2011 report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stated that approximately one-third, or around 1.3 billion tonnes, of food production worldwide ends up as waste.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 2, 2021

Enter “upcycling.” Or take a swig of juice with “reprocessed” ingredients made from other food byproducts? Without the right marketing, these don’t sound like the most appetizing options. That’s the relatively recent term for the age-old… Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 13, 2022

Upcycled food products (made from ingredients that would otherwise not have gone to human consumption) are the most straightforward and scalable path to reducing and preventing food waste, says Upcycled Food Association CEO Turner Wyatt. Read the full story at Food Navigator USA.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2023

However, more and more brands are concentrating their attention on curbing food waste across the supply chain. As consumers have become more aware of these … Continue reading Upcycled food helps brands, consumers combat waste

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Cleannovate

JUNE 20, 2023

What better way to grow personal, communal and national wealth than converting waste into valuable products. That’s the gyst of circular economy – and more precisely waste valorization. And that’s what this article is about. Can we derive value from agricultural […]

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Rheaply will use the Materials Marketplace's network of 2,200 partners and expertise in the upcycling of building materials, improving the company's efforts to divert building waste from landfills.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Today, on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, Misfits Market and the Upcycled Food Association announced they are launching The Upcycling Challenge, a contest for food entrepreneurs to create an innovative, sustainable, and delicious food product that repurposes excess food or waste.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Upcycled food is the next frontier in recovering and repurposing food that may otherwise go to landfills, encouraging the reintroduction and reuse of food items into the supply chain. In an effort to advance the upcycled food industry, The Kroger Co. Read the full story at Progressive Grocer.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Upcycling agricultural waste into food ingredients and alternative protein inputs will be necessary to help feed the world’s growing population, according to a new report from the Good Food Institute (GFI). Read the full story at Food Business News.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 8, 2022

Researchers have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The readily adoptable, scalable method introduces a closed-loop strategy that could globally reduce plastic waste and cut carbon emissions tied to plastic production.

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Inhabitant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Bowen Collection is a classically framed table with a twist — its top surface material is made using an ultra-durable blend of upcycled rice hulls that would have otherwise gone to waste.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 22, 2022

Singapore upcycling products firm CRUST has revealed a new collaborative upcycling business model of working with big food and beverage brands to develop new co-branded products from their existing food waste. Read the full story at Food Navigator Asia.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 14, 2023

A panel of food waste and upcycling experts shared some sobering numbers during a panel discussion at IFT FIRST, held July 16-19, including that up to 25% of produce grown on farms globally goes unused. Read the full story at Baking Business.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 15, 2023

A buzzword among food formulators today is upcycling. It’s a concept gaining traction among a growing number of consumers and food manufacturers interested in reducing food waste through a circular economy. Read the full story from Food Business News.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Upcycling is now “the new recycling,” presenting an attractive opportunity for businesses to curb food waste and loss, while scaling a host of new value-added F&B products from these sidestreams. Read the full story at Food Ingredients First.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 25, 2023

By upcycling agricultural waste, these three startups are replacing plastic with a new wave of packaging materials that ‘make no compromises along the supply chain.’ Read the full story at Sustainable Brands.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 22, 2023

Pet food and treat processors have been using upcycled ingredients — namely in the form of rendered meat byproducts — before it was even a coined term.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2022

Consumers consistently rank sustainability as a top motivator for dining and shopping decisions, and upcycled ingredients are leading the way. Read the full story at The Food Institute.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 20, 2023

Upcycling brewers’ spent grains adds protein and fiber to food and beverage products. The practice has a sustainability benefit, too, in that it reduces food waste. Read the full story at Food Business News. Yet cost remains an issue.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News Upcycling plastic waste into graphite, used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, could positively contribute to the global economy, preserving resources, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to Penn State researchers.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Penn State Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program is hosting a two-part Food Manufacturing Pollution Prevention Training Series-- -- October 24 - Webinar: Building A Regional Coalition For Reducing Waste In The Food Industry, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 7, 2023

Several years later, the brothers … Continue reading Behind Do Good Foods’ mission to lower livestock emissions through upcycling They would routinely take food leftovers and feed them to their chickens, pigs and pets, which they said helped the animals grow strong.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 26, 2023

Upcycling food, or turning would-be wasted byproducts from one product into something delicious and nutritious for people, has emerged as one of the hottest trends in food and beverage in recent years with the market projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.6% Read the full story from Food Navigator USA.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 14, 2023

New York, envision … Continue reading The future of menus includes upcycled ingredients Not just any vegetables, but the plants that typically never leave the field. That’s what brothers Jeremy and Adam Kaye, co-founders of The Spare Food Co.,

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 17, 2022

The upcycled food movement is gaining momentum as product developers create new uses for previously overlooked ingredients. Read the full story in Food Business News. Exhibitors at Natural Products Expo West sampled nutritious food and beverages formulated with avocado seeds, celery scraps, orange peels and other landfill-bound leftovers.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 28, 2023

Read the full story at Food Engineering. Green Cell Technologies (GCT) and RWH Holdings (RWH) have worked with several global brewers over a period of eight years to understand the challenges around what to do with their leftovers—brewers spent grain (BSG) and brewers spent yeast (BSY)—and the answer, as it would happen, is disrupt it.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Del Monte Foods has announced what it said is the industry’s first canned vegetable product to be certified by the Upcycled Food Association under its new upcycled certification program.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 23, 2023

Upcycling turns would-be trash into ice cream and pizza The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Oregon-based Salt & Straw uses the whey leftover from yogurt makers in upstate New York to make his lemon curd flavor. For chocolate barley milk, … Continue reading The US has tons of leftover food.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 30, 2022

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The trial program will examine how the cocoa-based fertilizer affects wheat crop production, soil health and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over a … Continue reading Nestle exploring upcycled, low-carbon fertilizer

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