Defugo is a biotech company working on Zero Waste food solutions. Our Universal Processing Plant (UPP) recovers the natural goodness of biomaterials that are wasted in the processing of vegetables, fruits, biomass and more. By breaking down food waste into its base components, like fibres, carbohydrates and proteins, each component can be reused to its fullest extent.
”Our holistic approach has a huge impact for investors”, said David Coleman when speaking at STHLM+50 Climate Hub, a five day event which was broadcast live to millions around the world.
We enable manufacturers to enrich processed foods with the health benefits and taste that nature produces. Proteins can be used to make protein-rich plant based food products. Components that can’t be used for food can be used for fertilizers or biofuels. Our technology helps recover food to feed the growing population and it reduces emissions as our biotechnology can create food solutions primarily from food waste.
During processing, current technology creates a waste stream that means operators throw away 30% of an apple, 50% of citrus, and 90% of sugarcane biomass, which is normally burnt creating even more CO2. In total, 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted which, if preserved, would be made available in the market and would play a major role in making food more affordable and available to everyone. Simply put, using Defugo technology, our customers and partners will improve both their food production processes, their yield, their profitability, and they will also decrease their carbon footprint by sending less waste to landfills.
David Coleman, Chairman of Defugo; Vanessa Butani, VP Group Sustainability, Electrolux; and Richard Swannell (on screen), International Director, WRAP, during a panel discussion at STHLM+50 Climate Hub.
Our Chairman, David Coleman, was one of the speakers at the STHLM+50 Climate Hub in early June, where he talked about the problem and the solutions we offer. He said, "Instead of looking at the apple as just being apple juice, we can now break the apple down into various parts that go into non-dairy, that go into animal proteins as binders and can be used in a range of different products that are outside of just the scope of apple. That holistic approach has a huge impact for investors, and when investors can get behind these ideas and we can challenge the leaders that are out there to make some decisions and get away from the ‘do as I say not as I do’ kind of cycle, then we can really start to make some change in food waste."
We take a different approach to food processing. We do not need energy-intensive processes like crushing and overheating, and we do not use chemicals, as our processors preserve the food in a natural way. It is obvious that we need to throw away less food, but we also need to make better use of what we throw away. Join us on this journey as we will continue talking about what we do over the coming months.
Watch David Coleman in this panel discussion from the STHLM+50 Climate Hub Broadcast:
https://youtu.be/WbXYEBzplqo?t=3672
- 50 years after the very first UN Environment Conference, placing nature and poverty at the forefront of the international agenda, Stockholm welcomed the world again in June 2022.
- Together with partners, We Don'tHave Time and UNDP hosted a public arena for the entire week of Stockholm+50, leading up to World Environment Day 2022.
- The broadcasts reached 31 million viewers from more than 160 countries on Twitter.
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