food waste

Best before: The ultimate guide to keeping fresh fruits

Bookmark this guide for when you’re planning on going on a fruit haul

Can I eat this? A guide to navigating moldy food

We’ve all been surprised by a colony of green fuzz growing on the side of our sliced bread, but is it safe to eat? We have the answers

green, cream, and yellow clothes on a fruit stand with pineapples, banana and bamboo
These clothes are made from repurposed fruit fibers to cut down on food waste

Seeking an alternative to resource-intensive cotton, clothing brand Pangaia has been developing technical fabrics like this one. Also, these pineapple leaves are sourced from the Philippines

chefs preparing bento meals
Tokyo Olympics wasted 4,000 boxes of food on opening day. Here’s where it went

Tokyo Olympics organizers apologized for the food waste on Wednesday, adding that there is a 20 to 30 percent surplus of food across all venues

tomatoes
Help farmers and save up on tomatoes by buying in bulk (P200/10kg) this weekend

RiceUp Farmers Inc. is helping Pampanga farmers save tons of tomatoes. They are delivering to Quezon City, Ortigas and Makati this Mar. 26

cagayan cabbage farmers
Cagayan farmers need help moving tons of cabbage. You can bulk buy at P25/kg through this initiative

Cagayan farmers are willing to sell cabbages way below market price instead of taking middlemen’s meager offer of P5/kg, or worst, throwing them away. Online group Rural Rising is taking it upon itself to stop that from happening

Save that crispy pata oil! This is where you can send it instead of down the drain

Where does used cooking oil go, Mareng Whitney? This on-demand service picks it up from your house, saving your drain pipe from clogging and the groundwater from contamination

This book-a-bucket subscription will compost your holiday food waste so it doesn’t end up in landfills

Eco-solution Green Space takes care of your food wastes in bokashi buckets for composting later

Food waste in landfills is a recipe for disaster. Try bokashi or vermicomposting at home instead

In case you didn’t already know, our food waste is a vast problem. It is,…

An important quarantine lesson: How to minimize food waste

Here’s a sad side effect of quarantine: A lot more waste has been produced due…