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repurposing food waste

How South Korean food waste is turned into feed, fuel or fertilizer

When wasted food rots in landfills, it pollutes soil and water — and warms the planet. Here’s how one country keeps that from happening.
Milan is winning the fight against food waste

Milan is winning the fight against food waste

The city's groundbreaking "zero waste" strategy aims to leave no meal behind.
Too Good To Go lets you buy restaurants' leftover food

Too Good To Go lets you buy restaurants' leftover food

Too Good To Go—a winner of ‘Fast Company’s’ 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—connects customers with a random grab bag of leftover goods and food from stores. It’s already saved 200,000 meals from going to landfills.
Wasteless's electronic price tags lower the cost of groceries as they get older
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Wasteless's electronic price tags lower the cost of groceries as they get older

Fruit that will get thrown out next week would be cheaper than fruit that expires later. If you’re going to eat it that day, you can save.
Ikea’s new cookbook, Scrapsbook, puts food scraps on the menu
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Ikea’s new cookbook, Scrapsbook, puts food scraps on the menu

Not a Swedish meatball in sight.
Genecis turns food waste into compostable plastic
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Genecis turns food waste into compostable plastic

Food waste from a restaurant or cafeteria could be turned into compostable foodware for those same restaurants or cafeterias.
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