Dec 16, 2020 | General, News, Tech and development
Google has created a software against food waste in collaboration with chefs, supermarkets and growers. This software ensures that leftover food is redistributed as quickly as possible and as smartly as possible to places where it is needed. The software also looks at...
Jul 22, 2020 | General, Hospitality, News, Tech and development, Video & Audio
A Swiss start-up is helping companies measure their food waste. After all, we have to measure things often to be able to improve them. The Kitro company has designed an AI rubbish bin that measures how much food is thrown away. In this way, companies gain insight into...
Jun 22, 2020 | General, Institutions, News, Producers, Tech and development
Eggshells, tomato peels and many other different types of food that are being thrown out can be reused and turned into sustainable rubber. This rubber can be used in tires as found by researchers a while ago. The material that would usually be used to fill the rubber...
May 5, 2020 | Farmers and gardeners, General, Hospitality, Institutions, News, Producers, Research, Research news, Supermarkets and retail, Tech and development
A new research report shows that we need to change the way we produce and distribute food to ensure better food security in the future. This is concluded by European scientists concerned with the question of how this change should take place. Katrien Termeer,...
Apr 13, 2020 | General, Institutions, News, Producers, Supermarkets and retail, Tech and development
PerfoTec has an innovative way of packaging called the Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP). With the use of new techniques, the company tries to package food in a safer, cheaper and more sustainable way. The goal is to reduce waste and costs because the productivity...
Mar 12, 2020 | General, Hospitality, Institutions, News, Tech and development
In the Netherlands, approximately 200,000 tons of food are thrown away every year. This concerns both foods that have already been prepared and unprepared foods. The start-up Zero foodwaste wants to provide insight into this waste pattern in the catering industry by...
