New data shows Canada has an ongoing food waste challenge, and it’s expensive.
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Why it matters: Avoidable food waste has an estimated value of $58 billion, and from an environmental perspective, contributes the same carbon dioxide emissions as 253,000 flights from Toronto to Vancouver.
According to a recently released study by food rescue organization Second Harvest, Canadians waste almost half of all food in the country every year.
Quebec-based rendering company Sanimax, investment firm Idealist Capital, and investment fund Fondaction are jointly investing $58 million into Entosystem’s insect rearing technology that turns food waste into animal protein and frass fertilizer.
“Black soldier fly larvae are very good at eating food …