Transform Your Food Scraps to Help Reduce Food Waste

May 26, 2020

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Upcycling your food scraps could help reduce the more than 70 billion tons of greenhouse gases generated by food loss and waste, while creating new jobs and innovative products.

“Upcycling,” the new term of art, is one way to reduce food waste and help the environment. But until now, there hasn't been a single standard definition of upcycling, even as the number of startups tackling food waste grows and consumers show more interest in buying products made with upcycled ingredients.

Food waste and loss cost the global economy more than $940 billion a year, according to a study by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

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