For example:
1.3 billion tonnes
per year of food — fit for human consumption — is either wasted or lost globally.
(The Food and Agriculture Organization - United Nations)
86 times higher
The global warming potential of methane (a gas produced by food thrown away in landfills) compared to CO2 averaged over 20 years.
(The Conversation)
The company collects agro-waste and waste derived from food processing industries such as spent barley grains, soya waste and milk powder from local major food-processing factories and recycles them into food additives for poultry feed – distributed regionally within South East Asia.
Lam Tak has been in the animal feed industry since 1968. They have manufacturing factories in Singapore and Malaysia, they are able to manufacture standard, or unique feed formulation upon request.
Today, the company provides a wide variety of raw feed materials, such as soy press cake, spent grain, vegetable oil, food & feed grade dairy products, etc.
Founded in 1994, the company saves food waste from being wasted. They first began operations ferrying excess bread from production houses to Aqua farms for fish feed. As they progressed, they began developing resource recovery competencies to salvage materials from food waste that could otherwise be useful in the Agriculture industry.
Today, they work with food manufacturers to lower their cost of disposal through waste repatriation and resource recovery. They target waste hotspots in production line and convert these losses into gains fo their clients.