| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.01.2025 | Will the GLP-1 Boom Reduce Food Waste? Latest ReFED Report Lists 2025 Trends | 5 Mins Read Ozempic, inflation and the Trump presidency will likely dictate how the US deals with food waste in 2025, according to ReFED, a leading non-profit.
Last year was a big year for food waste policy in the US. The Biden White House ... |
| 29.11.2024 | The Thanksgiving Waste Crisis: Turning Leftovers into Opportunities | Thanksgiving is a time for family, feasting, and gratitude. Yet, it’s also a time when food waste reaches staggering heights. In the United States, Thanksgiving is not just a celebration; it’s a feast for the trash bin. According to ReFED, ... |
| 28.11.2024 | Restaurants Food and Drink | How to use up every one of your Thanksgiving leftovers | Make turkey enchiladas to give your leftovers a Mexican-inspired makeover. For taco lovers, leftover turkey tacos are a quick and delicious option that brings a bit of spice to the table.
If you love traditional chicken pot pie, switch thin... |
| 25.11.2024 | How not to waste 18 showers’ worth of food this Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving in the US is as much a feast for the trash bin as it is for extended family, according to new data from food waste think tank ReFED. But there are practical ways to curb that waste, Minnie Ringland, manager, climate & insig... |
| 25.10.2024 | Are US State Bans on Food Waste Bans Really Not Working? | 5 Mins Read Several US states have introduced food waste bans. But of the first five, only one state’s approach has worked, according to one study. But there’s more than meets the eye.
To curb the US’s gnawing food waste problem, a number o... |
| 16.08.2024 | The Future of Food and Fashion: Innovations in AgriFoodTech and Sustainable Materials | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. Startups are racing to innovate, creating solutions that tackle food waste, enhance sustainability, and redefine consumer experiences. In this landscape, two stories stand out: Zepto's meteoric rise in ... |
| 15.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Zepto secures fresh $340m, Bolt Threads goes public, ReFED has a new boss | Quick-delivery continues speeding ahead in India, the latest development being a mega-raise from Zepto that values the company at $5 billion. Elsewhere, food waste think tank ReFED got a new executive director, Impossible Foods opened a bri... |
| 30.05.2024 | USDA Announces Expansion of Interagency Collaboration to Help Reduce Food Loss and Waste | WASHINGTON, May 30, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the signing of a formal agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to renew their Federa... |
| 17.04.2024 | Data snapshot: Investment in food waste tech down in the US, but sector still ‘well positioned to outperform overall trends’ | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new re... |
| 17.04.2024 | Grocery Stores Report Significant Progress In Reducing Food Waste, New Report Finds | From 2019-2022, grocery retailers decreased the number of tons of unsold food in their regional operations by 25%—190,000 tons of food valued at $311 million.
This is hands down the largest progress in reducing food waste we've ever seen re... |
| 11.04.2024 | PCFWC & ReFED find ‘real food waste reductions at scale’ in a new study of West Coast US grocery retailers | West Coast US grocery retailers decreased their number of tons of unsold food by 25% from 2019 – 2022, according to a new report from the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC), a public-private partnership between food businesses and ... |
| 20.12.2023 | Food Waste or Wasted Food? Spare Food Co. Bets on Upcycled Vegetables for Blended Meat | 5 Mins Read The Spare Food Co. has introduced Spare Starter, a plant-based “culinary shortcut” made with a blend of upcycled produce and spices that can replace a portion of conventional animal protein in dishes like burgers, meatballs and ... |
| 24.05.2023 | Tech can fight food waste, but it’s ‘just one part of the solution’ | In some ideal utopia, average consumers could solve the planet’s food waste problem simply by throwing less food out.
Realistically, that will never happen. As the oft-cited stat goes, around one-third of the world’s food goes to waste each... |
| 26.04.2023 | US generated 91m tons of surplus food in 2021, representing 6% of all GHG emissions. Just 2% was donated. | The United States generated 91 million tons of “surplus food” in 2021, representing 38% of the country’s entire food supply, according to updated figures from food waste non-profit ReFED.
Despite 80% of this surplus food being edible, less ... |
| 01.03.2023 | Brief: Divert bags $100m, strikes $1bn infrastructure deal with Enbridge to turn food waste into biogas | Energy company Enbridge has committed $1 billion to help tech company Divert expand its food waste processing facilities across North America. Divert works with grocery retailers to process surplus food into renewable gas. Divert has also r... |
| 27.12.2022 | 10 of the most promising foodtech startups, according to top VCs | Vita Ventures; Rethink Food; Stray Dog Capital; Branded Hospitality Ventures; Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
VCs selected promising foodtech firms that could help... |
| 17.10.2022 | Why Do Food Waste Advocates Give Meat A Pass? | The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that 30 to 40 percent of good food is ... [+] wasted. That’s nothing compared to the 25 calories spent to produce just one calorie of beef.Getty Images |
| 01.06.2022 | ReFED partners with Closed Loop Partners on a new $100M circular food solutions funding platform led by Google, others to reduce food waste | Did you know that 40 percent of all food produced goes to waste? In fact, the world wastes millions of tons of food every year. The situation is even worse here in the United States where about half of all US food produce is thrown away.
I... |
| 12.05.2022 | Corporate commitments, policy drive record $1.9bn funding for food waste solutions: ReFED | Technology companies tackling food waste raised $1.9 billion in funding in 2021, representing 101% year-on-year growth, according to a new report from US-based nonprofit ReFED. This takes investment in food waste tech and business models mi... |
| 06.04.2022 | After years of growing awareness, ReFED director sees a 'rubber-meets-the-road moment' for food waste | In the nearly seven years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture set a federal goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, the amount of research, investment and awareness around tackling this issue... |
| 10.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Finless Foods nets $34m; CPGs & QSRs quit Russia | This week, cultivated seafood startup Finless Foods closed a $34 million funding round, Clean Crop Technologies raised funds for its crop protection tool, and Protenga nabbed capital for its insect farming operations.
Meanwhile, major food ... |
| 26.01.2022 | Natera : and Copia Announce Partnership to Support Local Communities | AUSTIN, Texas., Jan. 26, 2021 - Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a leader in personalized genetic testing and diagnostics, today announced it is partnering with Copia, a technology provider that connects food donations to nonprofits in need. Th... |
| 21.01.2022 | Leftovers: Lay's fries up potatoes grown in NFL stadium dirt; Opopop creates an interactive popcorn experience | Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can't write about everything that we get pitched, so here are som... |
| 30.12.2021 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles of 2021 | AFN strives to provide holistic coverage of trends and developments across the agrifoodtech ecosystem; but we on the editorial team wouldn’t be able to do it all by ourselves. We rely on the multitude of expert commentaries, opinion pieces,... |
| 16.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: EzCater nets $100m, McCain bets $55m & Good Meat gets green light | This week, vertical ag player Infarm and corporate catering startup ezCater each closed funding rounds that kicked their valuations to over $1 billion. In the alt-protein world, Eat Just secured further regulatory clearances in Singapore fo... |
| 25.11.2021 | Sizing up America’s Thanksgiving food waste problem | ’Tis the season for wasting food. In America, that season usually starts with the Thanksgiving holiday.
Food waste may be extra pronounced this year as this is the first Thanksgiving many families are getting together since the start of the... |
| 18.10.2021 | Food Waste Market Map: Invest in food waste solutions to fight hunger & climate change | Alexandria Coari is vice president – capital, innovation, and engagement, at ReFED, a food waste-focused nonprofit based in Chicago, US.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those ... |
