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Flour from tofu? Fertilizer from coffee beans? Innovators look for new ways to use food waste - Star Tribune
A growing number of companies face many barriers in a food system that wasn't designed for recycled food.
In a downtown St. Paul skyscraper, Claire Schlemme and Sumit Kadakia are working out how to keep soy pulp out of landfills.
They turn it into flour for cakes and cookies. “It’s sort of stealth health for the masses,” Kadakia says.
Their company, Renewal Mill, is part of a new generation of innovators reprocessing food-production leftovers into new consumer products — and tackling America’s food waste problem along the way.
A growing number of companies face many barriers in a food system that wasn't designed for recycled food.
In a downtown St. Paul skyscraper, Claire Schlemme and Sumit Kadakia are working out how to keep soy pulp out of landfills.
They turn it into flour for cakes and cookies. “It’s sort of stealth health for the masses,” Kadakia says.
Their company, Renewal Mill, is part of a new generation of innovators reprocessing food-production leftovers into new consumer products — and tackling America’s food waste problem along the way.