When it comes to solutions for tackling climate change with food waste, upcycling is one that consistently gets a lot of column inches. It is also, noted Miranda Mirosa​, director of Otago University’s Food Waste Innovation research group, “the first consumer product-focused solution” to food waste. * What to do with the food we waste the mostBut upcycling – to answer a question posed by this very reporter, on this very site, late last year – cannot be the whole answer to the problem of food waste, Mirosa stressed. Supplied Citizen Collective makes beer from disused bread – but that’s not enough to solve our food waste problem. If manufacturers embraced upcycling their own unusable products, manufacturing food waste could be significantly reduced.

Source: Stuff October 04, 2021 02:35 UTC