Wednesday, July 29, 2015

This Startup Turns Almost-Expired Fruit Into Tasty Nutritional Powder To Fight Hunger

It's Soylent for the impoverished, coming to markets in the Philippines soon.

It sounds like a simple problem to solve: Grocery stores waste massive amounts of almost-expired food, while millions of people nearby go hungry. Why not connect the two? But the logistics of getting an overripe banana to a food bank fast enough that it can feed someone are more complicated than you think. Tesco, the U.K.'s largest chain, wasted over 100 million pounds of food last year, despite its donations to charity.

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