One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. That’s about 1.3 billion tons per year, worth approximately US$1 trillion. What’s more, all the food produced but never eaten would be enough to feed 2 billion people. That’s more than twice the number of undernourished people on earth. These facts come from […]
In 2018, Virgin Atlantic announced the first use of food waste as jet fuel, by successfully completing the first transatlantic flight from Florida to London using a mixture of regular jet fuel and fuel made from discarded food. At the time, the mixture was only 5% ethanol food waste to 95% normal jet fuel, but […]
