TOMRA Food has investigated why a digital transformation can help reduce food waste and loss.

Recently, I asked if barrier film performance is living up to the expectations of the marketplace.

In 2016, FoodMaven was founded in Colorado Springs, Colo., to help eliminate the large amount of wasted food found throughout the supply chain, brought about by products deemed out of specification or over-produced.

In this video interview, Tom Egan of PMMI and Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief of The National Provisioner, discuss the state of the packaging industry.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, global quantitative food losses and waste are roughly 20 percent for meat and 35 percent for fish annually. Package defects, such as leaks, often can be the cause of food that is lost or wasted.

TOMRA is committed to continuously developing sorting and grading systems to sustainably keep food in our supply chains and out of the waste heap.

It is economically important that perfectly usable product is not discarded as part of routine cleaning operations.

In this video Q&A, Andy Hanacek discusses the serious issue of food waste in today's society with Patrick Bultema of FoodMaven during the 2019 Reciprocal Meat Conference.

Franklin Miller shredders cut foodstuff, vegetables, meat products, fish, ingredients, plastic, packaging and more, down to size to facilitate processing, recycling and disposal.