Grounds for optimism: the companies recycling spent coffee grounds
If you thought that used coffee grounds were only good for making washing-up messier, clogging…
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TPG Rewards: connecting food freshness sensors & IoT
In June 2019 academics at Imperial College London (ICL) announced a prototype ‘food freshness sensor’…
No-till seed drill for UK farmers – the DSX coulter
Born from Sly Agri Ltd (a British company founded in 2006), Horizon Agriculture has announced…
Freight Farms & Sodexo expand container farming schools network
Freight Farms and Sodexo are expanding their trial partnership which has provided indoor grown salad crops at…
Banana plants into bioplastic – a novel food packaging solution
Over in Thailand, Rimping Supermarket wraps its groceries in banana leaves instead of using plastic…
Insect farming: the bug stops here
More farming will be needed to feed the growing wave of interest in insect nutrition,…
IBM and Yara launch farm data sharing exchange
Firms urge industry players to collaborate on farm and field data IBM is urging the food…
Biggest cell-based meat investment yet – $161 million for Memphis Meats
California based start-up Memphis Meats, founded in 2015, has raised an additional $161 million from investors…
TurtleTree’s Cow and Human Lab-Produced Milk
Today’s consumers are increasingly concerned about the conditions in which animals are raised and, in…
Smart water bottle claims to clean planet ‘one sip at a time’
REBO smart water bottle uses blockchain to fund marine plastic waste collection A smart water…