mrt 13, 2017 | General, News
Tesco has launched an innovative, online ‘food waste hotline’, to help make it easier for suppliers and growers to pinpoint ongoing food waste hotspots, and work with the retailer in tackling them. The ‘hotline’ is accessible to all Tesco suppliers via the retailer’s...
feb 3, 2017 | General, News
02-02-2017 | While the US media have been solidly focused on politics, the developments around the market trials of the Arctic Apple have gone largely unnoticed. This genetically modified (GM) apple will hit the shelves of ten selected stores in the US Midwest in...
jan 20, 2017 | General, News
20-01-2017 | A matchmaking app that allows suppliers to buy and sell food that would otherwise be dumped has been developed by Asda. Created to address the challenge of food waste in the supply chain, Asda Surplus Swap connects suppliers of unwanted food like leftover...
nov 23, 2016 | General, News
23-11-2016 | King-sized kiwis, curvy squash and smaller-than-usual apples and limes. That was the “ugly” produce count in boxes of fruits and vegetables Deborah Levine recently received at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. While most of the produce she gets in...
okt 12, 2016 | General, News
In the Netherlands, tens of millions of loaves of breads are returned to bakeries every year. These unsold loaves are mostly processed into animal feed, but what if there was another use for them – as an ingredient for cakes and cookies? Wageningen University...
okt 12, 2016 | General, News
Food waste innovators wanted! REFRESH, a European project on food waste, has launched its Food Waste Solution Contest and is looking for the freshest ideas to tackle food waste across Europe. The contest aims to highlight and support solutions to food waste and food...