Film Recycling Solution Search
Solution Search for Film Recyclers
Closed Loop Foundation ran a solution search for innovators in the film recycling space. Drought Diet Products was announced as an awardee, using post-consumer film plastic feedstock in its irrigation piping products.
Food Waste Solution Search Grantees
Full Cycle Bioplastics
Creates a circular-economy solution for food waste and plastic pollution by converting post consumer food waste into a compostable bioplastic.
Vermont Natural Ag Products
Recaptures renewable thermal energy created in its compost system to reduce energy consumption, time and therefore cost of creating the compost product.
Hold That Tray
Education, diversion, and combined anaerobic digestion/composting to highlight the value in food not served or wasted.
ALL IN Alameda
Comprehensive social enterprise to efficiently recover wasted food from retail
Renewal Mill
Harvests undervalued byproducts from current food production processes and upcycles them into high – value nutritious and wholesome products
BioWorks Energy/Flint, MI
Technology to make food waste into a sludge that can be incorporated into waste water digesters.
Georgia Tech
Add value to food waste nutrients by converting these nutrients into algal meal fish feed for aquaponic urban farming systems positioned at schools.
Indiana Recycling Coalition
Building a system solution for restaurant and retail composting by building a collection and processing system.