These 12 organizations are creating food products from upcycled food waste
Today's guest blog is authored by Sean Taylor, Contributing Editor of FoodTank. The post appeared on the website of GreenBiz.
Entrepreneurs are taking on food waste across the world in some truly creative ways — turning what many consider garbage into delicious — and nutritious — products.
Their efforts are part of a growing trend to battle one of the world’s most pressing environmental and agricultural problems. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted annually across the globe — if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
But companies and nonprofit organizations around the world are working to reduce food waste by upcycling food and creating high quality, nutritive products.
As defined by the Upcycled Food Association (UFA), upcycled foods "use ingredients that otherwise would not have gone to…