Tag: food waste

New organic rules and regulations, the challenges facing Controlled Environment Agriculture, and the ability to effectively connect the benefits of organic fresh produce to consumers were among the hot-button topics explored at the seventh annual Organic Produce Summit, held last week in Monterey, California.

There are apps for everything these days. Including preventing food waste.

Food solutions company SpartanNash (the "Company") recently achieved a significant milestone in its collaboration with technology company Flashfood.

Divert, Inc., an impact technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food, today announced new data showing that wasted food from grocery stores increases by an average of nearly 20% during the summer months compared to the winter months.

Independent retail produce operations can boost their competitive position with a new web-based application, Empower Fresh.

AgroFresh Solutions Inc., a global AgTech innovator that provides produce freshness solutions and digital technologies that enhance the quality and extend the shelf life of fresh produce, announces three new additions to its Apple Complete portfolio. 

This means more than 1,700 locations -- including Loblaws, Zehrs, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart and more – in communities nationwide are now paired directly with a local food bank or food recovery agency, helping to put good food to use before it becomes waste.

Too Good To Go, the world's largest marketplace for selling surplus food, is now available across the state of Texas.

The report looks at the role of food waste in the current climate crisis and how reducing waste at the retail level has the potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions, slow climate change, and address the connected problems of hunger and food insecurity.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia at Okanagan (UBCO) are working on technology to cut back on food waste while providing sustainable energy: using fruit waste to generate electricity.