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Did you know that pet food can be recycled to make food for fish and other animals? We do just that here at Denali! Take a look at the article below for details on this very cool process. #recycling #sustainability

Trending Tuesday 📈 Unsold, outdated and recalled #petfood products often end up in landfills, contributing to continued food waste. With this top of mind, Denali is taking these products and transforming them into #animalfeed and other usable products, supporting #sustainability. Learn more about Denali and its services for the #petfoodindustry: https://ow.ly/35xj50SHCjL

It was an honor to work with members to draft SWANA's comments on the US "Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics." This strategy paves the way for reducing food loss and waste and enhancing organics recycling infrastructure. With our members at the forefront, SWANA is eager to drive forward the implementation of this vital initiative. Read our comments and stay tuned for more updates. #SWANA #Advocacy #EPA #FoodWaste

Over a 1,000 tons of #FoodWaste just got repurposed into animal feed ♻ Making sure 3,000 cows got well-fed 🐮   The initiative, led by Sanjeev Raghubir, The Shoprite Group of Companies Head of Sustainability and CSI, believes in the pillars of the Circular Economy, a holistic approach to waste management.    "This ensures that waste is maximally utilized and repurposed at each stage of its life cycle." -Sanjeev Raghubir   Shoprite's proactive efforts are a commendable example: maximizing the repurposing of food waste and setting a model for others. We hope it inspires more to contribute towards a more circular, mindful path in diverting waste towards landfills.   🔗 | https://lnkd.in/g2PmyY2S   Let us know #WhatDoYouThink 🤔 #Sustainability #FoodWastePrevention #CircularEconomy | Benjamin Lephilibert

Here’s some more information on the partnership between Pact signatory Walmart and recycler Denali. Denali’s new de-packaging technology helps separate food from packaging, making it easy to ensure that #food enters waste streams that are more preferable than landfill—like animal feed and #compost. Learn more about the implications for #FoodWaste here: https://loom.ly/TvoNGT8

🧴❤🚰 Happy August refillers! Fifoam sustainable soap pumps are back in stock. Made in near Albany, and delivered in person this week. I know there's a few of you that were hanging for these. Lavender or Lemongrass come ready to use for anyone who wants to start their refill journey but doesn't have a foaming pump. $14.95/500ml pump. And of course, I always have the refill concentrate for your BYOC. It's currently Spearmint essential oil, which smells so fresh. $49/L. This is a gorgeous soft-feel clean, with essential oils, at incredibly good value. 1L of concentrate refill makes 4L, which means it's only $6 to refill the 500ml pump! This rich blend, combined with the efficiency of the foaming pump, lasts for aaaages. I've had my original Lavender sample since before I stocked it for you. I just refilled it for the first time on the weekend, over a year later! If you haven't heard the mind-boggling waste-aversion story behind the making of Fifoam, please ask! It's very interesting. It's part of an ingenious circular economy of the Black Soldier Fly farming cycle, tackling 4 of our global waste issues: 1️⃣ Diverting tonnes of commercial organic waste from landfill and methane gas production. 2️⃣ Creating high-protein food alternatives for livestock. 3️⃣ Creating high-value fertilisers for agriculture. 4️⃣ Creating better alternatives to palm oil to avoid mass rainforest habitat destruction. (Meat production, and food production for the meat industry, are two of the most unsustainable and resource intense practices humans have). fifoam: sustainable soap #sustainablesoap #blacksoldierfly #byoc #byocontainer #bringyourowncontainer #refillery #refillshop #refillstore #refillstores #refillnotlandfill #refillstation #refillnation #refillrevolution #refill #dontbeatosser #noexcuseforsingleuse #wastefreeliving #consciousconsumer #consciousconsumerism #dontbeatosser #noexcuseforsingleuse #reducewaste #reducelandfill #reducelandfillwaste #wastefree #wastefreeliving #perthwastefree #perthzerowaste #circulareconomy

My friend Cameron Bush is featured regarding the partial closure of their family business, AJ Bush & Sons Rendering Plant, which was founded in 1953. Since then, the factory located in Riverstone on the outskirts of Sydney has become a victim of poor state planning and a small but very vocal group of residents opposed to its operations. This industry, invisible to the majority of the population, is the oldest form of recycling and dates back thousands of years. The plant turns meat scraps from butchers and poultry processors into feedstock, fertilizer, cosmetic ingredients, and tallow, the latter being the base ingredient in biofuels. It transforms hazardous material into valuable products and provides a significant amount of skilled and unskilled work. Additionally, leftover wastewater from the process was turned into biomethane and used back in the factory. Moreover, this was the last remaining meat rendering facility of its kind in the Sydney region. While much is being discussed about the buzzwords mentioned above, here, nestled on the outskirts of Sydney and quietly going about its business, was one such company. Unfortunately, there were no awards, no greenwashing, and no billionaires championing their cause—just old-fashioned hard work, ingenuity, and passion. They were the real quiet achievers. With thousands of butcher shops and large-scale poultry processors left with no other option but to dump their organic waste into landfill, we are creating the grounds for potential outbreaks of serious disease. It’s a sad day that it has taken the closure of this business and this article for you to be presented with AJ Bush & Sons' unseen contribution to society. But when the piles of organic matter start making a negative impact on us, remember who made it come about! https://lnkd.in/gBrinz_n

Organic Valley is on a mission to fight for family farms and foster a sustainable future for dairy. 🌱🐮 Their latest initiative goes "Beyond Milk" by prioritizing regenerative practices, protecting small farmers, and delivering high-quality products.  The fight for family farms is crucial for our communities and the future of our food systems. What initiatives have you seen making a difference in sustainability?🌱 #OrganicValley #Sustainability #SustainableAgriculture #FamilyFarms #OrganicDairy #FoodAndBeverage #CPG #ImpactBusinessDevelopmentConsulting

BSF in the news: "Food waste startup Goterra is getting into the hotels business" “By transforming our food waste into sustainable protein for agricultural use, including suppling to our own egg supplier, Hilltops Free Range to feed their chickens, we are creating a circular economy. This initiative aligns perfectly with our ongoing efforts to consider sustainability in all aspects of our operations.” Full text: https://lnkd.in/gSGbZ3pv #insects #insectfarming #insectos #insectes #farming #moscasoldadonegro #insecten #insectfarm #foodindustry #blacksoldierfly #biowaste #organicwaste #wastemanagement #sustainability #circulareconomy #circulaireeconomie #regenerativefarming #frass #fertilizer #fertilizers #sustainabledevelopment #sustainable 

“A lot of investors asked me why doesn’t anyone else do this [use food waste as a substrate in commercial mushroom farming]? Probably because no one’s dumb enough to do it,” says Afterlife Ag co-founder Winson Wong. “But our goal was not to build a mushroom farm, but to figure out what to do with food waste, so we’re coming at this from a different angle. We’re trying to figure out how to make food waste more valuable." Growing specialty mushrooms on beds of food waste, of course, is not for the faint-hearted acknowledges Wong, one of six grantees to receive funding through the new ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund, an initiative designed to tackle food waste in restaurants. Read more from AFN - https://ow.ly/jAvk50SvUZR #indoorfarming #foodwaste #sustainability #mushrooms #circulareconomy