food waste Archives - B2B Central

15 Oct 2021

10x20x30: A global food waste reduction initiative.

By Staff Writer

The 10x20x30 is a global initiative aimed at mobilising 10 of the world’s largest food retailers to engage with at least 20 of their food suppliers to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030. The 10x20x30 initiative is directly derived from the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3: By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and...

17 Mar 2021

New doctoral study develops renewable food packaging from wheat straw and mango peels

By Staff Writer

Wheat straw and mango peels, normally disposed of in landfills or used as manure and animal feed ,could potentially be used in the development of renewable, biodegradable and non-toxic active (the ability to respond to temperature and time changes in food storage) food packaging that could help keep products fresher for longer. This is one...

16 Nov 2020

Easy and affordable refrigeration remote monitoring

By Staff Writer

Small and medium sized stores are now able to monitor their refrigeration assets, from anywhere, at any time, without the need for expensive central management control infrastructure, with the new ProsaLink mobile app, from Danfoss. Paired with Danfoss’ PR-SC4 telemetry device, the ProsaLink provides 24/7 real-time temperature and automatic data-logging, combined with alarm notifications to...

11 May 2020

How to deal with surplus food in the best way possible

By Staff Writer

By: Jared Ruttenberg Suppliers around the country have adjusted their model during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to make the best use of any surplus produce. Several conversations with suppliers around the country gave some fascinating insight, reminding me that South Africa’s well-endowed agricultural industry appears ready to meet the challenge; this with the staple...

05 May 2020

Be mindful of how you dispose of waste especially during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Staff Writer

During the lockdown in South Africa waste collectors, transporters and processors are still hard at work keeping the country clean and BiobiN is encouraging the public to be mindful of how they dispose of their waste in order to reduce transmission of COVID-19.

24 Feb 2020

SA’s new waste strategy takes aim at organic waste

By Staff Writer

South Africa has a newly revised national waste management strategy that has ambitious goals and waste reduction targets; one being to divert more organic waste away from landfill.

06 Nov 2019

Conscious consumers are the key drivers of change

By Staff Writer

In 2018, Sir David Attenborough told the United Nations Climate Summit in Katowice, Poland that the collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon. ‘Right now, we’re facing a man-made disaster of global scale,’ Attenborough told delegates from almost 200 nations. ‘Our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change.’

04 Nov 2019

How to keep organic waste out of the landfill and put to good use

By Staff Writer

BiobiN is the new waste management system in South Africa that brings an easy solution for diverting food and organic waste away from landfill sites by composting. BiobiN has been carefully designed to reduce odours, flies and rodents. ‘By having a BiobiN on your premises, not only are you able to produce high quality compost,...

09 Sep 2019

Why the food waste crisis needs to be addressed now

By Staff Writer

We are in the midst of a food waste crisis, and the world must respond to reverse its impact before it is too late.

05 Jul 2019

New study finds fruit waste can be used as natural food preservatives

By Staff Writer

Large amounts of citrus and grape by-products that are normally treated as waste and generally disposed of in landfills could potentially be used in the production of natural food preservatives.

12 Apr 2019

Introducing Polyoak’s new Turtle Trucks

By Staff Writer

Polyoak Packaging is intensifying its commitment to extended producer responsibility, by partnering with its customers to optimise the recyclability of their packaging. Design, functionality, material choice, decoration, closures and on-pack communications all need to be taken into careful consideration, to deliver a truly recyclable pack.

26 Oct 2018

We don’t have a food crisis we have a food waste crisis

By Staff Writer

If you want to know how much food the world wastes, the Internet is your friend. It can tell you about the farm in the United States that dumps at least a quarter of its potatoes for being too big, too small, too ugly or the “wrong” colour. Or about how food waste is responsible...