Across the United States, discarded food too often ends up just rotting in landfills. But one company in California is harnessing the power of data to make sure those valuable nutrients don't go to waste.
Clemens Stockreiter is the Founder and CEO of RE:CIRCLE Solutions, a company transforming pre-consumer food byproducts into sustainable animal feed ingredients. He's spent more than two decades leading recycling and circular economy businesses, including as CEO of PreZero US and CFO of Sky Plastic Group.
Today, Clemens joins us to break down how RE:CIRCLE is using science and technology to close the loop on food waste, and build data-driven circular food economies.
Highlights:
- What does RE:CIRCLE do? (1:43)
- Complexity of organics recycling (2:57)
- RE:CIRCLE's Ontario Facility (3:59)
- De-packaging (4:57)
- California sustainability requirements (5:47)
- RE:CIRCLE's TraceOS system (7:19)
- Convincing grocers to participate (8:48)
- Dealing with different types of food waste (9:43)
- 'Copy and Paste Scalability' (11:03)
- What's next for RE:CIRCLE? (12:37)
- The future of circular waste systems (13:34)
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