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New chip brand upcycles corn germ for water-saving snack

AGreenLiving

His new, water-saving tortilla chip brand upcycles corn germ to save 20 gallons of water per bag of chips. Very few of us are aware of the demand our food consumption places on our agricultural systems, but this is why sustainable agriculture, combined with eco-friendly manufacturing, is so important.

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Latest and Greatest Recycling Technologies

GreenTech Gazette

Biological recycling: Biological recycling, also known as biorecycling or biodegradation, is a process that uses microorganisms to break down organic waste into compost or biogas. This technology is particularly useful for food and agricultural waste. This technology is particularly useful for food and agricultural waste.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2023

Greentown Labs

Agriculture Capro-X deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! It’s participating in Year 3 of the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative.

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The UK wastes £19bn of food each year. As food shortages loom, we need circular solutions, says insect startup

AFN Sustainable Protein

takes a look at the extent of the UK’s food waste with food insecurity as a background and presents food upcycling as a solution to this waste. The startup believes these chains need to be circular, where resources are re-used and upcycled. Nature’s solution to food waste: insects as upcyclers. between 2022 to 2029.

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Lithos Carbon rocks agricultural carbon capture

Business Green

As the granddaughter of an entrepreneur and descendant of Taiwanese farmers, founding an agriculture-based climate startup might seem like an obvious career choice for Yap, 30, but her path to entrepreneurship was anything but a straight trajectory. The waste dust is what we're upcycling. Yap: We do give them a carbon credit kickback.

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India’s first insect farming startup Loopworm secures $3.4m seed round led by Omnivore, WaterBridge

AFN Sustainable Protein

The company sources this food waste — which it likes to call “organic byproduct”– from food processors, retail food chains, and fruit markets. This led them to start projects in paper and plastic upcycling but then they came to another realisation; that food waste was considered a negative value resource.

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Valani launches debut collection of biodegradable clothing

AGreenLiving

The banana silk is made from a byproduct of agriculture waste; discarded banana stems are harvested to make way for new tree growth and then upcycled into this sustainable silk alternative. The sustainable company has also pledged to donate 10% of its profits to conservation, animal welfare and female empowerment organizations.