PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2024

The Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program will hold an in-person training day and tour July 16 on Food Waste Reduction and Upcycling at the Penn State Berks Janssen Conference Center, 4150 Janssen Drive in Wyomissing, Berks County from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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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

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 20, 2023

Waste occurs throughout the supply chain. goes uneaten, and according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 95% of all food waste ends up in landfills, causing methane emissions during decomposition. Read the full story at Nutritional Outlook. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, 40% of all food in the U.S.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But for those of us who peel them, where do we dispose of these wastes? These are viable options of making use of potato waste. Well, there are a few places where peels could find use. Composting them helps return their nutrients back to the soil… Incorporating them into animal feeds helps enrich livestock diets.

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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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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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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

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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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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Cleannovate

DECEMBER 9, 2024

COMPOSTING In normal composting, high nitrogen wastes (the very mushy ones) are combined with high carbon wastes (the dry stuff like straw) and let … However, it may take over six months for the final product, which is quite some time. That said, in what ways could we hasten this process?

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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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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

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

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

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

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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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Biotrend Energy will use Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology in its planned plastics recycling factory in Turkey. The post Biotrend Energy to Use Honeywell Technology in Plastics Recycling Factory appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

New vegan products made with upcycled ‘imperfect’ vegetables are being developed by researchers in Europe. Read the full story at Food Navigator.

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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

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

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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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Legendary sports company Nike has dominated the headlines for its dedication to a zero carbon and zero waste future. One project at a time, they have drawn attention to sustainable actions and corporate responsibility when it comes to protecting the environment.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Do Good Foods, a newly launched company formed to turn upcycled food waste into feed for animals intended for human consumption, has started operations backed by $169 million from asset manager Nuveen. Read the full story from Food Dive.

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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 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

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

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 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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Inhabitant

JANUARY 25, 2022

Adidas has introduced a new hiking and athletic shoe in its TERREX line of apparel. The Nothing Left Behind Free Hiker Gore-Tex shoe is an ankle-supporting athletic shoe in sophisticated colors for the sustainably-minded hiker. It's the latest in a growing movement for sustainable footwear.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Read the full story from Northwestern University. Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 11, 2021

Tomorrow Water, an innovative total solution provider of water treatment technologies and eco-friendly waste management solutions, has been awarded a highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) grant by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Biotrend Energy will use Honeywell’s UpCycle Process Technology in its planned plastics recycling factory in Turkey. The post Biotrend Energy to Use Honeywell Technology in Plastics Recycling Factory appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 7, 2021

Read the full story in Forbes. A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic first swept the world, healthcare facilities faced a critical shortage in personal protective equipment (PPE). Aditi Sharma, who is finishing a dermatology residency at the University of California (UC) Irvine, vowed to help solve the problem.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Putting sustainability and sugar substitution at the forefront of innovation, Netherlands-based Fooditive transforms food waste into a sugar substitute for consumers. Read the full story at Food Manufacture. Read more →

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